Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elliott did urge, however, "that we offer immediate, short term, small recovery loans to those countries which are discharging their political commitments according to the Yalta agreements. Whereas we should not make loans of food a political weapon of coercion, we certainly cannot afford to aid any country whose internal affairs are dominated by non-democratic elements...
...Last Stand. The cheers were short-lived. Efficient, cruel Police Chief Filomeno Velazco was out, but his tactics remained. The press was still gagged. Citizen Perón took to the air, intimated that he might run for the Presidency in the April 7 elections, just announced by President Edelmiro Farrell. Perón also told Argentine workers, whose salaries he had raised before leaving office, that he would fight for social reform, that the day might come "when I will...
Furthermore, much of the new peace time equipment would have to be imported, "and it would be a short-sighted policy not to assist." Therefore the "war exchange" tax on all non-Empire imports (85% of them from the U.S.) would be abolished forthwith...
...life." He further announced that another war was unavoidable: people who thought otherwise, said he, were wishful thinkers, or believed that wars were the result of logical events, whereas they were caused by madmen-"And who can tell if the next madman will be fully clothed, or in short pants, or diapers...
...Fleet. War, which scattered the international whaling fleet, caught the U.S. short of sperm oil, badly needed for lubricating delicate submarine and aviation instruments. Most of the British and Norwegian whalers were converted into tankers and sunk or captured. But the Thorshammer and the Sir James Clark Ross managed to sneak past the Nazis, arrived in U.S. ports. They promptly went to work to keep the U.S. supplied with sperm...