Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then young Henry Ford made an unusual gesture of his own. He apologized to the U.S. public for falling 50,000 cars short of the 80,000 he had promised to make by Christmas. But he exonerated Ford employes of blame, put it instead on parts suppliers, hampered by price ceilings or by labor troubles of their...
...thing was certain: the U.S. would be using makeshift housing for a long time. The country was short at least 4,660,000 dwellings, would have to build at top speed for ten years to catch...
...Harvard, were spotted in April 1939, November 1939 and January 1941. The third gave him his biggest thrill. It was a comet 1,500 times larger than the earth, traveling at some 2,000 miles a minute, and had the highest inclination of any comet on record: two degrees short of straight...
...rough, romantic Lieut, (j.g.) John Wayne. Captain John Ford, who produced and directed the picture, allowed his men to be much more natural than most Hollywood heroes, kept his music low, achieved a feeling of reality rare in war films. But where Author White's Expendable was short and timely, Captain Ford's is long and late...
...fans are not selling Tufts short in this local battle. Crimson rooters well remember the Tufts' captain, Bob Skarda, who led them to a 57 to 47 win last year. In his first three games, he has been putting them in for an average of 15 points...