Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before he could reach Paris, Mr. Kellogg had to go to Havre. He stood on the deck, last week, as the ship slipped into the narrow harbor. From where he stood, he could see, at the right, the houses of Havre which seem flat like the backdrop of a theatre. He could also see, to the East, the sun. He could not see an object upon which the sun's rays were playing...
...Straight" Reporters. Humblest, because their names seldom appear; most serviceable, because they are instructed to be nonpartisan, to avoid prediction or speculation, to report no anonymous opinions, to report happenings factually and completely; most influential, because their reports reach by far the greatest number of people-are what might be called the Straight Reporters, the correspondents of the big news services. This year the Associated Press keeps two men and a woman, the United Press one man, near each Nominee continually. Writing their cautious, colorless reports, these writers are either unsung heroes or stenographic automata...
Meanwhile, outgoing Commissioner Chisolm advised the President that prison conditions are so radically different in different countries that "I couldn't reach any com mon ground or make any progress." He also flayed the U. S. for giving him only a "measly" appropriation...
...York (nee Samson), veteran of Arctic service, with the three airplanes and.all explorers except a small group headed by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd himself. This smaller group will leave during the middle of September from Hampton Roads, Va., on the whaler Larsen. Both ships are scheduled to reach Dunedin, New Zealand, in the last week of October. Here a third ship, the Chelsea, joins the flotilla, which then proceeds 2,300 miles across the Southern Ocean to the Ross Sea and the Bay of Whales. The ships will remain long enough to see the expedition established in the ice village...
Ford. Stirred by rumors that he would shut down his plant, redesign his new model, Henry Ford boasted, last week: "Our daily production is now 3,500 increasing by several hundred a day. Our present goal is 10,000 daily. When we will reach it I don't know. What we are doing is building for a long run. I am entirely satisfied with the way things are going...