Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helsinki, balding, sad-eyed ex-President Risto Ryti and seven other Cabinet ministers had been tried, under special retroactive legislation, for "contributing to Finland's entry into the war on Germany's side." Twelve Finns had tried for 19 days to reach a verdict, with Russia impatiently looking over their shoulders. Last week, the tribunal announced a verdict of guilty. The Finnish court had obviously shared worldwide doubts on whether the responsibility for war was a crime. In relation to the charge, the sentences were fantastically light. Ryti and his colleagues would serve an average of 4.8 years...
...week London announced that three Cabinet ministers-Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India, A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade-would go to India to repeat and perhaps to better Cripps's 1942 efforts to reach an agreement with Hindus and Moslems on dominion status for India...
Witnesses and suspects, deprived of the right of habeas corpus, were questioned in strictest secrecy in a ninth-floor room of the capital's guarded Justice Building. At night they were still held incommunicado, beyond reach of either relatives or lawyers, some at a Royal Canadian Mounted Police barracks. The area was swept by floodlights and ringed with armed guards in buffalo coats...
Optimistic Mr. Kaiser felt that, if necessary, the Civilian Production Administration would step in and allocate steel to K-F. In any case, K-F and Graham-Paige will not get enough to make more than 1,500 cars a day, a figure they hope (overoptimistically, say automakers) to reach next October. To boost production above this, they will have to make cars with aluminum bodies. This may prove to be one of the toughest jobs Kaiser has ever tackled...
...accumulated during the war-80,000 bales of raw silk, 75,000,000 yards of mixed fabric, 1,500 tons of tea, nearly 1,000,000 grams of cultured pearls. Small amounts of silk, tea and such lesser items as agar-agar (a gelatinous substance extracted from seaweed) may reach the U.S. this year. But most Japanese goods now available for export are suitable only for nearby Asiatic and Pacific markets. In these markets, they will be exchanged for urgently needed food...