Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Depression II. (The Treasury's first guess, last week, was a decline of some 750 millions.) Last week President Roosevelt ordered the Treasury to undertake a tax study for the edification of the 76th Congress. In the next twelve-month the Treasury's deficit may well reach 4,400 millions and shoot the National Debt up over 41 billions-six billions greater than the figure of $35,026,000,000 which Franklin Roosevelt anticipated 17 months ago would be the peak of U. S. debts...
...passed the scene of the Custer Creek tragedy, pulled up at Miles City for orders, then raced on for Harlowton. At the way station Ingobar, 110 miles by train west of Custer Creek, the Olympian was supposed to have waited until an eastbound special, carrying 120 CCC boys, could reach a siding to let the limited go through. But without automatic block signals to remind forgetful engineers of orders in their jumper pockets, the Olympian raced past Ingobar. A mile beyond, it cracked head-on into the CCC train, killed one boy, injured 17 others on the two trains...
Principal Japanese fear was that the flooding Yellow would reach a long arm southward to the Yangtze, itself within five feet of overflowing and not yet at its mid-summer peak from melting mountain snows. Between them the two swollen rivers could completely swamp the Japanese offensive on Hankow, which was not going too well in any case. Early in the week the invaders had taken a giant stride nearer Hankow by capturing Anking, capital of Anhwei Province. When they ordered the U. S. Government to clear the 200-mile stretch of the Yangtze from Wuhu to Kiukiang for their...
...Dawson. The weather was getting cold, one of the Yukoners boilers had blown up, and she was in danger of being crushed in the ice if she remained in the river. For the captain, crew, passengers and the general manager of the company operating the Yukoner, her failure to reach Dawson was a catastrophe; in those gold-rush days a Yukon River steamer paid for itself in one trip and made a profit of $41,000 to boot...
Observation of the ionized layers, which extend from about 30 to 150 miles above earth--well beyond man's reach-- is possible because the electric character of these blankets is such that they reflect radio waves back to earth. It is this reflection which makes it possible to send radio messages beyond the optical horizon, around the curve of the earth...