Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already been adjudged (by the 1942 Roberts report) as derelict in their duties: Lieut. General Walter C. Short, Commander of the Army's Hawaiian Department, and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet on the day the Japs attacked. New light shed by the reports did nothing to brighten their records; it cast them, indeed, into darker shadow. What the new light did was to illuminate other failures. Among them...
...Walter Short arrived in Hawaii in February to take command. The nation's outpost was woefully deficient. Hawaii needed aircraft, artillery, searchlights, roads, bombproofing, engineer troops, more airfields for dispersion of planes, aircraft warning systems...
...Short wrote to Marshall. Marshall replied that the War Department "appreciated fully" the need for aircraft warning systems, but it would be necessary "to comply with certain fixed regulations in those cases where facilities are to be established on lands pertaining to the Department of Interior.... The National Park Service officials are very definitely opposed to permitting structures of any type to be erected at such places as will be open to view and materially alter the natural appearance of the reservation...
...Right Way. Short, balding Robert Young is trying hard to become the biggest U.S. railroad tycoon since the Union Pacific's Edward Henry Harriman. Born in Texas, he worked in a Du Pont powder mill at 22½? an hour a short 20 years ago. Now he has a fortune of $7,000,000 and a show place in Newport. His admirers refer to him as "the emperor." (In the library of his Newport home hangs the David portrait of Napoleon...
...property, plus '$11.5 million which RFC offered to lend Kaiser for additions to Fontana); 2) a 25-year, no-interest second mortgage of $34.5 million; 3) a $10.3 million note to be secured by 103,180 shares of Kaiser Co. Inc. 4% first preferred stock. In short, RFC wanted its original loan repaid in full, 'was not prepared to subsidize Kaiser's well-publicized campaign to deliver cheap steel to West Coast industries...