Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sale was held on the fifth floor, but elevators did not stop there. To reach the scene of battle customers had to take slow escalators or ride elevators to the fourth or sixth floor and go on foot from there. When the crowds grew too thick, Gimbels turned the escalators...
...bound from Boise, Idaho, vanished into the stormy dark over Wyoming. Next day, search-plane pilots glimpsed a ragged gash in the snow near the 11,000-ft. summit of Wyoming's blizzard-swept Elk Mountain. For two days, ground parties fought 75-mile-an-hour winds to reach the peak. When they did, they found flight 14, scattered over a quarter mile of rock and ice. The dead: 21. The cause: unknown...
Finally we reach the entrance of the park. A large proportion of the populace has taken refuge there, but even the trees of the park are on fire in several places. Paths and bridges are blocked by fallen trees and are almost impassable. It is now quite dark. At the far corner of the park we at last come upon our colleagues. Father Schiffer is lying on the ground deadly pale. He has a deep cut behind the ear and has lost so much blood that we fear for his life. Father Superior has suffered a deep wound...
Where the city stood, everything, as far as the eye could reach, is a waste of ashes and ruin. The banks of the river are covered with dead and wounded; the rising waters have already covered some of the corpses. Naked burned cadavers are particularly numerous. Among them are wounded who still live. A few have crawled under burnt-out autos and trams...
Then, the 71,650 shares of voting stock were split equally among Mrs. Edsel Ford and. the four children. Until Billy and Josephine, now married to Walter Buhl Ford II (no blood relation), reach the age of 25, Mrs. Edsel Ford is trustee for their shares. The 1,350,000 shares of non-voting stock were turned over to the Ford Foundation, a tax-free charity (Ford Hospital, Greenfield Village, etc.), which the family organized ten years ago. Thus the inheritance tax was comparatively light, although the exact sum is still in dispute between the Ford family and the state...