Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holds the job of CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacific) were to write a geography primer for children, he would probably start with these simple facts: three-fourths of the earth's surface is ocean. One-third of the earth's surface is the Pacific. Above this vast reach of blue water, above its coasts and islands, is the three-dimensional ocean...
With the first wave of the nation's youngsters heading back to school this week, it looked as though another record was about to be broken. In Washington the Office of Education's latest estimate showed that primary-and secondary-school enrollments will reach an alltime high of 29,828,000, an increase of almost 3% over last year's 29 million...
...Tall, dark & handsome Gardnar Mulloy, 36, of Coral Gables, Fla., the only member of the U.S.'s Davis Cup team to reach the semifinals...
Tired Reliables. That the Yankees were even within talking reach of the 1950 pennant was the wonder of the season. Injuries had kept Old Reliable Tommy Henrich (.287 last year) out of the regular line-up most of the season. Joe DiMaggio (hitting .285) was winning games when they counted, but he had been off form all through midseason. Relief Pitcher Joe Page (3 won, 5 lost) was far behind his 1949 performance...
...month later, with Designer Ted Jones at the wheel, Slo-Mo-Shun IV won motor-boating's famed Gold Cup. Last week on the Detroit River Slo-Mo-Shun took the last big prize within reach. It ran away with the international Harmsworth Trophy and, in the doing, pretty well established itself as the greatest speed boat ever built...