Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States cannot reach and maintain the high level of employment we have set as our goal unless the outlets for our production are larger than they have ever been in peacetime...
...cost of the strikes was not yet paid in full. It would take ten days for steel production to get really started, perhaps ten more days to reach full operation. Ford Motor Co., where 40,000 workers were out for lack of steel, would take at least two weeks to get back to normal production level. Some smaller manufacturers might take considerably longer...
...gadget was known as the "electronic numerical integrator and computer." Its inventors-Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert-called it "eniac." For their blue-ribbon audience, they demonstrated how eniac could compute the trajectory of a shell in less time than it would take the shell to reach its target. Thus, in a trice, eniac showed its superiority over all its predecessors...
...save King Cotton from the grave politicians have dug, the U.S. is now trying to reach an agreement with other cotton-producing countries to set prices and production quotas. In this way it hopes that the mountainous world carryover can be absorbed eventually and everybody, including the U.S., be guaranteed a share of the world market. If the international agreement is signed, the South will have to either: 1) mechanize cotton growing so that it can be done much cheaper, or 2) grow much less cotton. The simple way of legislative price fixing seems doomed by postwar cotton economics...
...outcome of the bombing, Captain Eddie was less specific. But he was sure that such a program is "well within the reach of potential execution [although] we may have to stretch a little in the reach." Difficult questions left unanswered: Can an atomic bomb penetrate 1,800 feet of hard-packed, flintlike ice? How long would the minerals continue to be dangerously radioactive...