Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is a front, somewhere ahead. Quick-eyed, shrewd little Lieut. General Tu Liming, commander of the Manchurian expedition, finds the Communists neither well-trained nor well-disciplined. Of the battle at Shankaikwan, which breached the Great Wall, he says: "It was only a skirmish." General Tu expects to reach Mukden (190 miles from Suichung) within two weeks. By week's end, his troops lunged 60 miles forward to Chinhsien, a key rail junction, where the Communists had tried to dig in. General Tu is almost certainly overconfident; he expects to have all Manchuria under control by Christmas...
...these rosy forecasts, warned Small, were made on the assumption that "production would not be seriously interrupted by external causes." Such "external causes" as strikes and price squabbles had already hit auto production so hard that it may not reach its peak until late 1946. Then, Small estimates that it will employ 569,000 workers (twice the 1939 level...
...Wallace Ellwood Cake, U.S. Rubber Co. official. He arrived in Manhattan from Sumatra, where he had been a Jap prisoner, with a first-hand report on Far Eastern rubber. Said Cake: 1) the Far East has 250,000 tons of rubber ready to ship; 2) production next year may reach 550,000 tons...
...President, according to a White House secretary, was "well prepared" for his conversations with Attlee. Perhaps the two mild, quiet men would reach some understandings and make some decisions which would start the world back on the road to unity. Their discussions had one advantage: they were not over-bally -hooed. If they failed, they had at least not raised the hopes of the world too much...
...Labor-Management Conference was a flop. Delegates conceded this week that they would do well to reach as much agreement as the pallid platitudes of last spring's management-labor charter (TIME, April 9), which has not altered the battle lines by an inch. President Truman's observers reported back to the White House that he had misplaced his hopes in banking on the conference to settle anything; he might as well abandon them...