Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this loud negative was a long history of the decline of the American Merchant Marine as a paying proposition, and a growing need for government subsidy to keep American ships afloat, carrying the American flag, and transporting American cargoes. It has long been common knowledge that American goods could reach Europe and the Far East most cheaply aboard freighters carrying the British, Dutch, or Norwegian flags. Further, it has taken no great investigation to link the high standards of life aboard American ships to the high cost of shipping on these same vessels. Forced by union agreement and the realization...
Another braintruster is Mosha Pijade, 55, Jewish Vice President of Yugoslavia's powerless Parliament. He is a greying, walrus-mustached, hunchbacked little man (when he sits at his desk, his legs do not reach the floor), who used to be a journalist, modernist painter and a Belgrade drawing-room lion until Communists were taken seriously. Then he was jailed, spent years studying Chinese, lecturing his jailmates, and translating Das Kapital into Serbo-Croatian...
...Mike Pearson went back to Ottawa to take Norm Robertson's place. In calling him home, Prime Minister King was giving his new and relatively inexperienced External Affairs Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent a thoroughly experienced, adept right hand. He was also, significantly, bringing within arm's reach a man whose name has been mentioned as Mr. King's political crown prince...
...till January 1948, said he, could G.M. and the other car makers hope to hit the rate of 6,000,000 cars a year they had expected to reach late this year. (Auto production this week was 76,106 cars, a rate of 3,900,000 a year.) One prime reason: worker efficiency is way down. In 1941 G.M., with 265,000 workers, turned out 55,000 cars a week; now, with 20% more workers, it is making only 25,460. Said Wilson: worker efficiency* was only 80% of its prewar level because of inexperience and workers who 1) feel...
...watt ultrashort-wave transmitter could weigh less than 50 lbs., said Dr. Hutcheson, and its signal would be strong enough to reach from moon to earth, even without the advantage of a directional beam. Power could come from batteries. The whole apparatus would have to be designed to deal with the vacuum of space, and designed to operate both in extreme cold and in the high temperature (250° F.) of the lunar midday. To Dr. Hutcheson such difficulties were minor...