Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ordered suppliers of cadmium (used for electroplating other metals) to fill no more than 50% of their defense orders on hand, allot the rest to essential civilian use until a long-range cadmium program is drawn up. Reason: cadmium is in such short supply that defense orders alone would easily gobble up more of the metal than is now available...
Businessmen might be pessimistic about the future, but Wall Street took a cheerful view. Day after President Truman's mobilization speech last week, the market started out at a fast clip, with textiles and such war stocks as Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing leading the parade. In the short, half-day session, 2,020,000 shares were traded and both the rail averages and Dow-Jones industrials scooted up. Reason for the rise: after all the grim advance notices, the President wasn't nearly as tough about controls and cuts in civilian production as Wall Street had expected. Furthermore...
...Short, greying Ralph Cordiner worked his way through Whitman College selling electric appliances in his home town of Walla Walla, Wash. He joined a G.E. Pacific Coast subsidiary in 1922 and worked his way up. In 1938, he succeeded Charlie Wilson as manager of G.E.'s Appliance and Merchandise Department, was elected vice president in February 1945 after serving as vice chairman of the War Production Board. Since then, Cordiner has been Charlie Wilson's right-hand man in planning and carrying out G.E.'s postwar expansion...
Trio. Somerset Maugham escorts three more of his short stories to the screen; with Jean Simmons, James Hayter, Nigel Patrick (TIME...
Fate's Guinea Pig. In his short life he produced 14 books-poems, novels, short stories-some masterly, some amateurish. He pursued an erratic career as reporter and war correspondent. He made punishing journeys to wars and insurrections, and he acquired a Bohemian notoriety that reads like a composite of Poe and De Quincey. A rebellious spirit, he took a peculiarly joyless pleasure in scandalizing the age. A groundless charge of drug addiction provoked a characteristic response: he concocted a piece on the opium habit...