Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge Kaufman's words to the Rosenbergs reach the hearts of all others who would betray their country-and humanity...
...down to 20,000 in June. The aircraft industry was still jogging along on a 40-hour week, pleading for skilled technicians, far behind Harry Truman's expansive prediction of a 15,000-a-year rate by year's end; they would be lucky to reach a rate of 500 a month. In many defense plants, retooling was behind schedule. Manufacturers scornfully called DO (Defense Order) priority certificates "merely hunting licenses...
London unhappily resigned itself to A.I.O.C.'s expropriation; it would try to make sure of vital oil from Iran by control of its transport and marketing. If the flow of oil is menaced by violent outbreaks, London let it be known that British warships can reach Iran's oil ports within 48 hours' sailing time...
...automobile racing as a complete involvement in which he can both lose himself and find himself at the same time. This seems to involve no conflict, though I might be wrong, as there also seems to be an attempt at resolution at the end. The plot fails to reach any sort of climax and the play ends with a dying fall as the young man renounces auto racing even at the moment when he finally wins a race. The scene is laid in Italy, by the way, though to no apparent purpose as neither situation nor characters is dependent...
When Barbara Joiner Parsons was made a general partner in the Wall Street brokerage firm of Jacquin, Stanley & Co., she received a telegram from the Ziegfeld Club: "Darling, Congratulations." Barbara is an ex-dancer in the Follies, and the first Ziegfeld girl to reach such starry heights on the Street. Only about 50 women are general partners on Wall Street. Texas-born Barbara Parsons got into the Follies of 1018, pranced and kicked. alongside such stars as Marilyn Miller and Eddie Cantor. After leaving the Follies she took some business courses, got a job selling a financial letter...