Word: reached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money to Spend. During the 50 years before Leduc was brought in, $150 million was spent on oil exploration in Alberta. This year $100 million will be spent; next year the figure will probably reach $150 million...
When the shouting started in Britain's press last week, Editor Leech was back home in the U.S., happily out of reach of British newsmen. Publisher Roy Howard, who had dispatched Leech to Britain, was not so lucky. Stepping out of his plane at a London airport last week, he walked right into a drumfire of questions from a squad of angry Fleet Streeters. Howard stuck to Leech's guns: "Marvelous reporting...
...began to unroll their case. Essentially, it rested on one hard military fact. When the B-36 was adopted, the airmen insisted, and when its production was later stepped up at the expense of other aircraft, it was because it was the only U.S. weapon in existence which could reach the only possible U.S. enemy. "It is pointless to talk in riddles," declared Air Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg with a blunt disregard for the diplomatic niceties. "The only military threat to the security of the United States and the peace of the world comes from the Soviet Union...
...guns smoking, but cautious, self-deprecating Ezzard Charles ran true to form. In the near 100° heat of the stadium, Charles fought his usual earnest, crafty and intelligent fight. He beat game old Gus about the head and body, danced out of range when his opponent tried to reach him with sledgehammer rights. Except for round six, when Lesnevich spent himself in a hammer & tongs attack, the fight was all Ezzard's. When wornout, scar-tissued Gus Lesnevich, his face puffed and bleeding, failed to get off his stool for the eighth round, the fight went to Ezzard...
Ralph Budd, the "president of railroad presidents," obeyed one of his own rules and announced last week that a new man would be running the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad on Sept. i. A Budd-made regulation requires executives of the fourth longest U.S. railroad system to retire when they reach...