Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before that he took another firm, if tardy, step. He short-circuited the effort to put through Congress a bill authorizing a postwar Navy of 6,000 ships. He asked Senators to hold off until the Army and the Air Forces had presented their postwar plans. Then he would make the overall recommendation for the nation's military establishment based on 1) necessity, 2) cost. This in itself was merger of a kind, in advance...
...club manager persuaded the captain to retake his seat, then came to our table to apologize. The Russian officer cut him short: 'It's you Germans who are the cause of all this. Get away from here.' Lieut. Pablov then walked over to the American captain, said in perfect English, 'Don't worry about it, I wish I were back home myself.' Pablov offered his hand. The American captain took it, turned back to his bottle. Red-faced, the German manager retreated to the kitchen...
...other side of the floodlit, simply furnished courtroom sat Germany's fallen leaders. They had fallen far and hard. Only a short time ago, their words and deeds had brought fear to people from Murmansk to Lands End to Jamestown, N.Y. Now they were just an odd and seedy assortment of soldiers, rowdies, bureaucrats and bourgeoisie, who hardly looked important enough to have provoked the heavy wave of hatred, disgust and indignation which had swept them into the prisoners...
...took a half-step toward fact last week. The presidents of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale signed an expanded version of an old Harvard-Princeton-Yale agreement-no "athletic scholarships," no first-year men or scholastic delinquents on varsity teams, no post-season games-in short, strictly antiseptic amateur football. Members are not required to play each other, and no formal championship will be at stake. Far from forming a league comparable to the Big Ten, the ivy-covered institutions were merely seeking to "maintain the value of the game while keeping it in fitting proportion...
Collet, Economic Stabilizer, sadly admit ted as much last week. He announced a new subsidy program designed to get more coffee into the U.S. during the next three months. Said he: U.S. coffee supplies are so short that a subsidy is "the only alternative either to a return to rationing or to a price increase to consumers of 5^ or more per pound of roasted coffee." Thus the RFC will pay about $25,000,-ooo to Latin American growers, at the rate of 3^ a pound, for all coffee (up to 6,000,000 Ibs.) sold to the U.S. between...