Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Americans, British and French must haul most of their supplies from west of the Elbe, a comedown from the original Anglo-U.S. contention that Berlin's outlying regions, which are under Russian control, should be Berlin's breadbasket. The Russian part of Germany was seriously short of supplies and could not support all Berlin...
...York Daily News, displayed some of the birthday gifts Elliott had given her-a pearl pin encrusted with diamonds and rubies; earrings to match; a gold cigaret lighter. Her hair had been blonde, long and straight, but: "I had it cut and now it's dark and short and curly, and nearly everyone thinks that Elliott's being unfaithful...
...prospect of a short crop may force Clint Anderson to postpone his plan to increase the meat supply by raising beef and pork subsidies, which would encourage the farmers to raise more cattle and hogs. He may also be forced to 1) ban the use of grains after Aug. 1 for the production of alcohol for beverages, 2) divert more wheat for animal feed...
...belated attempt to stop these rye-jinks, Chicago's Board of Trade upped the margins for rye trading, stopped all trading in July futures except to fill contracts. Promptly rye prices dropped. But at week's end, as reports of a short rye crop came in (see Food), the price of rye was climbing again...
...Parent Philips. In 1891, Dutch Engineer Gerard Philips borrowed 150,000 guilders from his banker father, bought a lamp works in the cheap-labor town of Eindhoven. Gerard, a few months short of bankruptcy, urged his brother Anton to try to sell Philips bulbs. Anton agreed, traveled gaslighted Europe, sold bulbs far beyond the plant's capacity to produce (his greatest coup was a 50,000-bulb-a-year order for the Tsar's Winter Palace). By 1912, the company was big enough to be incorporated (one share was worth 1,000 guilders...