Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smart President Farish, whose approach is as smooth as his head, told first of his Humble Oil beginnings, but barely reached page one of his 35-page statement when the interruptions started. Senator Homer T. Bone, chairman, was quick to challenge any implication that the case against Standard had been one-sided. Said the Senator: "I am fed up on big outfits like yours indicating to the public that Congress is trying to ride them. God knows we are not big enough to ride your outfit. You are one of the biggest corporations in the world." Later, the Senator philosophized...
Talk of a second front or something which would approach it may become a reality...
...Yale plan, run on an experimental basis, intends to harden the students and prepare them for service under fire by giving them physical tests which approach in difficulty those developed by British Commandos and American Ranger troops. Actual tactics and technique will be neglected, however...
...most dangerous, most important mission the task force had yet undertaken. Unlike most other raids in China, this one required a flight across treacherous mountains, through heavy weather, and an. approach over enemy-held Indo-China territory. If the Jap spotted the force on its way to Haiphong he would have time to send fighters from Canton and Hanoi to intercept it on the way home. Nonetheless, stout, scowling Colonel Caleb Haynes, boss of General Chennault's bombers, set out to hit Haiphong with everything...
...Republican side of the fence the pasture can be cultivated just as neatly. Bennett's nomination makes the election of Tom Dewey as Governor of New York the closest approach to a political cinch since the 1932 Presidential campaign. The American Labor Party, whose 400,000 votes have been the decisive Democratic margin in New York since 1936, has announced that it will put its own candidate in the field rather than support the lukewarm Mr. Bennett. This move will split the Democratic vote like a meat cleaver through a chicken...