Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College Boards, the student's natural lust for leisure might win out. But the advantages to the student would seem to outweigh these objections. Once over with the red-devils of College Boards, he will have one year to break away from the repetition of French verb forms and reach out into the rich literature of the language. His preparation for college might consist, not of learning dates in American History, but in coordinating the social, economic and historical background of the field...
...position was beginning to look embarrassing. Plain fact was that, as soon as City of Flint sailed under the German flag, it risked capture by British warships, faced at the minimum a 1,300-mile voyage through blockaded waters, at least 50 miles of known mine fields, to reach a German port. Equally plain was it that, if Russia permitted the ship to remain in port, she violated international law, that if she released it to her U. S. owner (as the U. S., after a Supreme Court decision, eventually released the Appam), she would antagonize Germany. While Germany...
...Berlin radio estimated that Soviet-Nazi trade for the next year would reach $800,000,000, about twelve times what it was last year. In return for "thousands, even millions" of tons of cotton, oil, flax, wood, Germany would deliver to the Bolsheviks entire factories, chemicals, machinery...
...operating company construction (forced by threatening power shortages)-without any holding company shakeup-may reach somewhere close to $600,000,000 (against perhaps $500,000,000 this year), but is not likely to go higher. Some plans already outlined: > Companies in the Electric Bond and Share system have budgeted $80,000,000 of new construction for 1940 ($66,000,000 authorized this year). > Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern system (which two weeks ago sold more property to TVA-at a loss of about one-third on book value) is spending an extra $22,000,000 over & above its normal...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark--The captured American freighter City of Flint, in command of a Nezi prize crew, tonight was reported racing at full speed through Great Britain's naval blockade off the southern coast of Norway in an attempt to reach a German port...