Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, Provost Buck gave his permission to the Committee to solicit the College faculty through the University Mail Service, and it is hoped that the entire faculty of the University may be added to this mailing list to reach a total of about 2,000 possible contributors...
...minutes and with an absolute minimum of debate. Yet in scope it is the most comprehensive program of education and cultural relations ever embarked upon by the United States, or any other country in the world. Just as the G.I. Bill of Rights brought higher education within the reach of millions, so the Fulbright plan makes foreign study available to thousands who never otherwise could have studied abroad. If a lasting peace ultimately rests on education and genuine international understanding, the Fulbright bill is a long stop in the right direction...
...harvesting the biggest crop in its history. The wheat output was expected to reach 1,132,075,000 bushels, 42 million more than the July 1 estimate, some nine million more than last year's all-time high. Granted a good soaking rain in the corn belt within a fortnight, corn production would also break records; the Department of Agriculture's estimate last week was 3,487,976,000 bushels, some 250 million better than the previous high...
Then Ed Kennedy, A.P. boss in Europe and veteran of 13 years with the A.P., got word that the Germans had announced the surrender over the Flensburg radio. He tried to reach Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF's bumbling press chief, finally got to the chief U.S. censor. "I give you warning now,'' said Ed Kennedy, "that I am going to release the story. I see no further reason for SHAEF to withhold...
...prospect was a more serious shortage, one that the U.S. thought ended with the war-a shortage in manpower. With an estimated 56,740,000 at work, the U.S. already has the full employment that many an economist thought would take years to reach. And still there were manpower shortages everywhere...