Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keeps things in, as well as out. With that in mind, the first emergency conference of the Western Hemisphere's nations moved swiftly to build within that wall not only a "citadel of democracy" but a joint economy. With overseas markets wiped out overnight or too dangerous to reach, the 21 representatives agreed to establish in Washington for the duration of the war a committee empowered to act rapidly in all emergencies to lessen the war's effects in the Western Hemisphere-and, more significantly, to give counsel to their Governments on joint means of stabilizing currencies...
...jolting colors and jampacked composition. Their frescoes are in the standard historical vein, grey and red their predominant colors. Contemporary, unlike their murals, are their canvases now on show at the New York and San Francisco World Fairs. But, says Eddie Millman: "In murals alone can art reach the large masses of people. . . . Easel paintings are too personal, too limited in appeal. . . . Painting, to be really functional, must be taken from small exclusive groups and thrown open to everyone...
...week U. S. assembly lines were clogging in several bottlenecks. > Textiles, paper, paint, steel, drugs and other industries dependent on imports faced a possible contraction, no immediate expansion of supplies. Raw wool, silk, pulp, shellac, vegetable oils, tin, chrome, tungsten, manganese, quinine, menthol, camphor, narcotics, are among materials which reach the U. S. by trade routes jeopardized...
...steel industry with a supposed capacity of 72,000,000 tons of ingots a year, it was estimated that four months will be needed to raise capacity to 85%, a full year to refit obsolete mills and reach 100%. Efficient high-speed producers, like Chicago's Inland, Cleveland's Otis, Detroit's Great Lakes (division of National) were reported to be sold out at 100% of production until well into 1940. Syracuse's Crucible Steel, No. 1 specialist in alloy steels for gun and shell forgings, automobile and aircraft parts, was booked solid through January...
...Council is hoping to raise $10,000, but if the amount is to reach that figure, the remaining upperclassman have to subscribe more heavily than those who registered on Saturday. Making up about one-fourth of the college, they contributed only about one-sixth of the goal, Phil Neal '40, president of the Student Council, pointed out last night...