Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Darkened Path. The subcommittee was told that U.S. and Allied policy still fell far short of meeting the problem. Said a Crowley statement: "We have still to agree on and to begin to apply a detailed, specific, unified economic and industrial disarmament program which will eliminate the German war potential as a part of a unified occupation program...
...Europe shivered through last winter, so it faced the prospect of freezing in the next. Many a European hopes that the U.S. will ship the coal that Europe needs. Last week, Solid Fuels Boss Harold Ickes dashed this hope. The U.S., said he, will fall short by some 37,000,000 tons of meeting its own needs. Result: coal shipments to Europe, now 500,000 tons a month, will be stopped altogether in September. If Europe is to get coal, it must...
Cold Belgium. In Belgium, production has been hamstrung by a series of political strikes (e.g., the miners oppose the return of King Leopold), and is only 65% of normal. Typical result: the Belgian steel industry was so short of coal in March that only one plant operated. Now the mills are turning out only 25,000 tons of steel a month, 12% of prewar production...
...picked up some more Pacific real estate last week as troops landed unopposed on Kume Island (20 sq.mi.), 50 miles beyond Okinawa in the East China Sea, only 345 miles short of the China coast. Another airfield might be bulldozed out of Kume's forested hillsides, and Okinawa's left flank would be made more secure against attacking Jap planes. Radio Tokyo reported U.S. minesweepers clearing the way for an invasion of Okino Erabu (15 sq.mi.), 40 miles northeast of Okinawa. This suburban property would give similar protection to Okinawa's right flank...
...sensational model was the "Merry Widow'': a sophisticated cocktail dress in heavy black crepe, with a short clinging skirt, a pink rose to punctuate the waist. It is worn with a black halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...