Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sites for veterans' hospitals have long been picked by pork-barrel politics. Of the 97 hospitals now in operation, 52 are in small towns where there are often short ages of good doctors, attendants, dietitians. Aware of this, Four-Star General Omar Nelson Bradley came to a sharp decision when he took over the Veterans Administration: hospitals would henceforth be built near big city medical schools. Last week Oklahoma's windy Democratic Senator Elmer Thomas fired the first gun to scare Omar Bradley off such ideas...
...front row of spectators sat two men with a special interest in the proceedings: big, heavy, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, in a grey business suit, and lean, bronzed Lieut. General Walter C. Short, also in grey. Their careers were al ready wrecked. Now other men would feel the stab of fact as well as the bludgeon of political innuendoes...
...food is precious. Housing is short. Shanghai's 200,000 Jewish refugees are still in the Hongkew quarter and a few have to live in refugee camps. Of all Shanghailanders, Jews face the most uncertain future. They dream of America in the same way as devout Americans dream of paradise...
...Penicillin, so plentiful last summer that manufacturers got permission to put it in tablets and capsules, was back on the priority list as production fell farther & farther behind demand. The Civilian Production Administration (successor to WPB) figures that production is already 20% short of filling current needs, will set aside 40% for hospitals until further notice...
Right to Left. H. T. Webster insists that Milquetoast is a self-portrait. Short of perhaps Joseph Stalin, it would be difficult to think of any man who looks less like Milquetoast than his creator. Webster carries all of his 6 ft. 3 in. without either the cringing or the exaggerated erectness of the man who is uneasy in this world. His face is handsome, ruddy and unlined, his blue eyes are direct and uncomplicated...