Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleventh hour had passed; it was five minutes to twelve when the great maritime strike was called off. The outcome was expected (TIME, June 17); what was unexpected was the time it took to reach agreement...
Dark Spots. Detroit's automakers, still in low gear, turned out only 47,000 cars and trucks last week. This week, output should increase and next week jump, thanks to a big boost when Ford gets back into production. But no one was even guessing when automakers would reach their 1941 figure of 130,000 units a week. Packard's George Christopher solemnly warned that the CPA order on steel (and another priority system upcoming on iron castings and pig iron) may cut all car production again to a dribble. And the industry was still plagued by suppliers...
...close to schedule. Refrigerators were up to 93%; vacuum cleaners 57%, irons 91%. But toasters, broilers and roasters were still way down. Radio manufacturers were turning out a million radios monthly, almost the 1941 production level. (The public was already balking at buying unknown brands.) Shoe manufacturers will probably reach an alltime U.S. high this year of 550 million pairs; tires were now plentiful. Production of housing components was improving. Item: 97,000 bathtubs were made...
...mixture of quick "knockdown" pyrethrum and DDT has been used in many preparations, notably the U.S. Army's "aerosol" insect bombs, now being sold to U.S. householders. But Activated DDT is supposed to penetrate an insect's chitin (outer skin) and reach its nervous system more surely than previous mixtures...
Quonset huts seem to be the only solution to a crisis that has been allowed to reach its eleventh hour. The University has contracted for forty of these structures. If the administration plans to use this as a model for other developments, forty are sufficient. But if the University means to drop the job there, it will be a clear demonstration that Harvard is still economizing as usual while colleges with much smaller endowments rally to meet this crisis in education. No less than ten times that number of emergency units, placed on Soldiers Field, along the River...