Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward the rails, slipping on oil and filth. They had been ten or twelve hours in the boats, some of them foundering. They had waited anxiously for rescue. And, when rescue was at hand, they had seen one boat swamped and most of its occupants drowned before help could reach them, another one smashed to kindling by the propeller of a rescue ship. And so they were in no mood to take No from Mr. Kennedy's son John...
Shadow. But the wheels of propaganda were beginning to buzz in their various ways last week as two novelists and a Scottish lawyer fought to reach the eyes and ears of the world with the best cases they could make for the conduct of their warring countries. One novelist was Paul Joseph Goebbels, author (at 24) of Michael, probably as bad a book as has ever been published, and operator (at 41) of the most powerful, most smoothly organized publicity machine the world has ever seen...
...Paris last week, 400 U. S. veterans and 100 U. S. women registered at American Legion Headquarters for service in the Legion's volunteer ambulance corps. Soon to reach the Western Front, the corps consists of three ambulances, a portable garage, 20 stretchers, twelve drivers. Chief organizer: burly Dr. James V. Sparks of Indianapolis, veteran of the Lafayette Escadrille...
...Liverpool for Montreal. At 8:59 p. m. Sunday, about 200 mi. west of the Hebrides, a mortal explosion suddenly rocked and ripped the Athenia's, hull, killed perhaps 100 passengers & crew, started her sinking fast. All hands got safely into lifeboats. One of the first ships to reach the rescue scene was the Southern Cross. Bitterly criticized Tycoon Wenner-Gren became an international hero as he picked up 200 survivors, started back with them toward Ireland. The Norwegian freighter Knute Nelson picked up 800 more. British warboats raced toward the spot where the Athenia was left to sink...
Poland for months has been lambasted daily by radio from Germany, but the broadcasts reach comparatively few Polish ears. Despite a money-making radio monopoly, Polskie Radio, in which the Government has a 40% share, Poland is not a radio-minded country. Of the estimated 1,000,000-odd-listeners to the eight-station network headed by Warsaw's SPI, perhaps one-fourth still get what they can on ancient crystal sets. Last week Polskie Radio talked bravely on, reported border incidents and the repulsing of Nazi sorties by air, played stirring martial airs between bulletins...