Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rocket with its man passenger only needed to reach the desired height, and fall back to earth by gravity...
...House, and - though he confessed that it all but spoiled his day - became the first British monarch to .speak ("from my home and from my heart. . .to men and women so cut off by the snows, the desert or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them") to his subjects over the radio. Elizabeth's father George VI insisted on making the broadcast even while wasting away after the removal of a lung, painfully recording a phrase or two at a time in an agonizing ordeal that took two days...
Management Audience. But the Journal's eight-man staff also stands diligent guard over top-level military policies, carries voluminous texts of significant military documents. Boasts Publisher Robert Ames: "We reach the top management audience of the military." The Journal's weak spot is its tendency to be a house organ for the military. This it does with out shame or doubt, meticulously listing in country-weekly style all military transfers (sometimes thousands an issue), runs a chatty society section devoted to service doings, plus a vital statistics column in which, as one staffer says, "an Army brasshat...
...that he committed 20 double faults. But he also scored 15 service aces to Anderson's five, and he pushed the powerful Aussie cowpoke to five sets before he lost, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 7-9, 6-3. After that, the cup slid swiftly out of reach. Cooper pinned Seixas to the base line and whipped the U.S. veteran in a match that went the unimpressively full five sets. Next day, in the doubles, Hopman took Mervyn Rose, 27, out of the Davis Cup doghouse, where he has lingered ever since losing two singles matches...
BIGGEST BOND ISSUE for a public utility in history of Pacific Northwest is making splash on Wall Street. The $250 million issue, floated by 140-firm investment syndicate for Washington's 775,000 kw. Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River, was oversubscribed in advance despite tight money...