Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defeat. But the uprising was doomed to short life. By early evening Batista's troops and tanks were rolling into Cienfuegos from nearby Santa Clara, while B-26s and F-47s from Camp Columbia pounded away. The battle roared through the night, and by morning the rebels had fled into the hills or had died defending their battered strongholds...
Despite the U.S. cooperation, some of the delegates were disappointed. They had expected that the three-week conference would produce a binding, final economic treaty. Not until the idea of such a short-order treaty was shelved did the conference get down to its real work: the drawing up of a list of principles to serve as a basis for future planning. The result was a ten-point "Declaration of Buenos Aires" and 39 other resolutions stressing technical matters...
Pleased with the critics' favorable consensus of opinion on his book, Evans this week is going to Europe with his wife for a short vacation. "I don't like vacations." he confesses. "They bore me." The quite unique reason why he is bored by vacations: "They cost a hell of a lot of money, when you could be more comfortable at home and accomplish something. I'm past the age when I can enjoy looking at ruins." But Grammarian Evans will have one consolation on his trip. Says he: "I'm going to take along...
...good insurance man that "you'd better not invest your money in a carriage factory!" What Wilde decided he wanted was flexibility, high-grade materials for low maintenance, and qualities of beauty and humanity that would attract and hold clerical employees (mostly young women) in labor-short Hartford...
...research grants that helped boost production of titanium sponge from 75 tons in 1950 to 14,000 tons last year. More than 90% of the 1957 output was bought by the Government. But last week the Government and producers alike were willing to concede that titanium had fallen short of everyone's high hopes for it. Complained a vice president of a titanium-producing steel company: "Titanium is the greatest fiasco in metallurgical history. It draws gases to it like flies to flypaper. The cost is forbiddingly high, and the strength-to-weight ratio is not everything...