Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hiss was subpoenaed and questioned. He denied knowing Chambers. Before the grand jury could reach any conclusions, the House Un-American Activities Committee caught the scent and acted. The committee subpoenaed Elizabeth Bentley, graduate of Vassar and, like Chambers, an ex-Communist courier. She named Government officials who, she said, had passed secret documents to her. Then the committee subpoenaed Chambers. He generally corroborated Miss Bentley's story, testified that Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White, whom she named, was at the least a dupe of the C.P., and repeated not all but a number...
...investigation, then announced a series of sermons which would reveal "the so-called respectable citizens who were backing this underworld industry." His office was promptly dynamited, says Reverdy Ransom, but he went right ahead with his campaign: "I delivered my sermons with a loaded revolver always within easy reach...
Britain's famous old public schools have long given their graduates a first-class education as well as an old school tie. The trouble is that there are just not enough Etons, Harrows and Winchesters within the reach of the boys who could benefit from them. In 1944, Parliament put a clause in its new Education Act urging Britain's towns and counties to get busy and set up tax-supported boarding schools of their...
...Better Aspect. To "broaden the basis of public support," he planned to put subscriptions within closer reach of opera lovers. For a first-class seat, instead of one series of 18 operas for $135, there would be two series of nine operas for $67.50 each. He hoped to attract more young people, and "since this young audience has more contemporary ideas on the visual aspects of operatic affairs," he hoped to introduce some more up-to-date production methods backstage...
...cost $11 a lb. Dow spent $200,000 on research, another $1,000,000 on a plant in Pittsburg, Calif, with a capacity of 2,000 Ibs. of di-methionine a day. This week, Dow put di-methionine on the market at $3 a lb., well within the reach of most poultrymen. Said Dow: one or two pounds of di-methionine added to a ton of feed will produce a 10% larger chicken...