Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impatient Murder Defendant Harold Frotten broke out of jail, left a note explaining: "I'm tired of waiting for that damn trial so went out for a little fresh air." In San Francisco, Charles Jones and Clarence Jacobsen, recaptured after a jail break, explained that they were short of cigarets...
Love in Wartime. In Havana, Ill., the Rev. James L. Dial took pity on a point-short couple he had just married, lent them three pounds of sugar for their wedding cake. In Rochester, N.Y., a ration board heard from an applicant, "I'm getting married, so I need a new pair of work shoes," considerately marked his request "Urgent...
Like a horse whose race was run and won, the speedy Bethlehem shipyard on Hingham Bay, 17 miles from Boston Common, was coasting to a stop. It had had a short life, and a happy...
...most distinctive thing about the carrier Ticonderoga was her skipper. Captain Dixie Kiefer* is a short, barrel-chested seaman and airman who ran his ship by procedures few men could or would use, and made them work...
...dollars, require all countries to deal in each other's currencies only at par. A nation may change its currency value as much as 10% without the Fund's okay. But further changes cannot be made over the Fund's objection. If France found herself short of U.S. dollars, she could get them from the common money pool (see chart) instead of restricting her imports from the U.S. France's contributions to the Fund would determine the limit of her total borrowings at any one time. When France later obtained dollars in trade, she could...