Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Within a short time, Lieut. General "Jimmy" Doolittle's Eighth Air Force will join the Pacific air war. At this point, the Eighth is responsible directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is obvious that an air chief will soon be needed on the spot, to coordinate the strategic bombing operations of LeMay and Doolittle. Best guess for the job: General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, the U.S.'s top air general at present unemployed...
...Service News will continue publication during the abbreviated summer term on the current one paper a week schedule, and twice-weekly publication will be resumed in September. During the short trimester that begins July 6, the paper a will appear each Thursday; a special Freshman registration issue will be published next Friday...
This brought the supply of civilian aluminum not only back to normalcy but far beyond. But it did not mean that the civilian supply of aluminum goods would immediately reach normal. Manufacturers are so short of cutting machines that consumer production will start slowly...
...French footed the bill for the most part, through reverse Lend-Lease. But in a France short of everything, the Army had to furnish materials, comb through the Nazi prisoners for skilled workmen, haul coal for the plants from northern France, even supply food...
...insured the success of many books. High-pressure promotion campaigns have launched others, including last year's lusty sensation, Forever Amber. An obscure novel called The Honorable Peter Stirling started selling like wildfire in 1897 when rumor identified the chief character as President Cleveland. Alexander Woollcott boosted a short story about a retiring British schoolteacher called Goodbye, Mr. Chips out of the cloistered covers of the Atlantic Monthly and into the hurly-burly of best-sellerdom by announcing over the radio that it had sent him "quietly mad." But Americans, by & large, have read what they felt like reading...