Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their most urgent problem was to move enormous amounts of relief and rehabilitation supplies (some sent by UNRRA, some purchased by foreign governments) to ravaged countries. At least twelve million tons of grain, nine million tons of coal must reach Europe from the Americas before July. Needy countries will call for other foods, clothing, fuels, building supplies and machinery. Long port delays, irregular schedules, return trips in ballast, diversions to out-of-the-way points, make this type of carrying unpopular with private shipowners, eager to get back to lucrative regular runs. It will be a job largely...
During all these efforts to reach agreement, lasting a minimum of two months, work stoppages of any sort are prohibited by law. Penalties for violations are stiff: $20 for each day a striker is illegally absent from work, $200 a day for unions which call an illegal strike, $500 a day for employers who attempt an illegal lockout...
...trucks a day, along with some 300 tractors. Soon he hopes to step this up to 5,400 cars and trucks a day. Then the company should stop losing money on every car, start making a little. With luck, and an end to the steel strike, the company may reach this figure soon. If it does it will have the longest start it has had in a decade on G.M. and Chrysler. But Henry II's plans do not stop there...
...still recuperating in England and Australia from the starvation of concentration camps. Nevertheless, production of natural rubber (not nearly as vital at present as tin to the U.S.) is expected to be up to 25 or 30% of normal in six months. Within a year it is expected to reach 60%. Few planters were worried about the competition of the war-built U.S. synthetic industry. They are sure that they can undersell synthetics...
...would reach only half its pre-war production 18 months from now. By last week a few European managers and mining engineers had drifted back to Malaya. Manpower, siphoned off by the Japs for war jobs, was still short, although returning coolies were doing preliminary chores around the mines...