Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only warless, but prospering. The years of German loans, of the building of the Bremen, the Graf Zeppelin, of reconstruction, of speculation, of U. S. financial dominance unaccompanied by an increase of U. S. political responsibility, were also years that saw the production of the world's goods reach new heights. They were the years when Coolidge said of war debts, "They hired the money," when Charles Dawes was Coolidge's vicegerent in Europe, wearing laurels won with the Dawes Plan...
...Exhibited at Manhattan's John Wanamaker department store were five designs for nifty, economical commuters' houses which won $1,000 apiece in the biggest low-cost house competition yet held. Each was planned to be within the reach of a family man earning $2,100 a year, yet each had two acres of ground and plenty of character. Explanation : sponsors were four fervent back-to-the-land organizations whose lucid publicist is Author George Weller of Homeland Foundation. For reducing cost factors which the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM found irreducible by the individual, they postulated cooperative buying of land...
...Chinese for "A Little Bit Of Something Precious") was the first giant panda ever to reach U. S. shores alive. To capture it, Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr. spent $20,000 and many months in remote Tibet, two years ago gave the baby giant panda to Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Mrs. Harkness introduced Su-Lin as a "she," and Chicago's zoologists saw no reason to change the designation...
...fair contracts were signed for one year, but it is no secret that this Greatest Show on Earth will probably run a second season. If admissions reach the estimated minimum of 40,000,000 (most people are expected to make at least three visits to the fair), Mr. Whalen's project will lose $3,941,445. If 50,000,000 attend, there should be a surplus of $1,024,158. If it is a two-year fair with 40,000,000 the first year, 24,000,000 the second, the surplus will rise to $8,269,555. Any loss...
Unlike Mr. Suma, Professor Zimmerman of the Sociology Department has no axe to grind in his article "A German Village of Today." Professor Zimmerman has been making a study of the ancient German hamlet of Klein Leugden, and he attempts here to reach a fair conclusion as to the effects of Nazi legislation on the lives of this small group of German villagers...