Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shakespeare, Weeds, Fish. For amusement the Nazis lectured each other. Ley spoke on the role of private capital in rebuilding Germany. The Foreign Minister in Doenitz' short-lived surrender government, Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, discussed Shakespeare. Hans Joachim Riecke, Nazi agriculturist, described the best methods of fighting weeds, and Lieut. Colonel Ernst John von Freyand, former aide to Field Marshal Keitel, spoke freely on the breeding of fish...
Until now UNRRA has had plenty of money but has been short on supplies (TIME, July 23). But meeting the Russian request, plus a whopping $945 million order for China, would kick UNRRA's 1945 budget skyhigh...
...Saved France." The prosecution read the Bill of Accusation: As Vichy Chief of State, Pétain had put the capstone on "a long-prepared plot against the Republican regime. ..." Then the judges (following French legal fashions), turned to question the defendant. The Marshal cut them short...
...nearly dropped my spectacles," said 62-year-old Hugh Alexander Matier. Browsing through the Seattle Art Museum's far eastern collection, scholarly amateur Orientalist Matier stopped short before a piece of heavily carved jade, five inches square. Looking at its two imperial dragons, its authentic yellow tassels and its archaic characters, he was suddenly certain that he had found the long lost Imperial Seal of China's Hsien Feng...
...Petroleum Administration for War had bad news to tell: gasoline stocks on the East Coast may soon fall to the level of a year ago, a low point of the war; fuel oil for home heating this winter will still be short. On top of this, the petroleum industry last week predicted: total petroleum needs for the Pacific war will be greater than the requirements for a two-front...