Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When TIME'S August 27 issue, with MacArthur on the cover, was flown to occupied Japan, some of the first copies were snapped up by, the two big Tokyo newspapers Asahi and Mainichi, whose editors got from TIME the first free-press news to reach that land of propagandists and censors since Pearl Harbor...
From Seoul, LIFE Photographer George Silk cabled: "I am writing this during a party in Korea's leading geisha house. The party is the third in a succession of 51 such parties. In the last few weeks 51 Korean political organizations have mushroomed and each tried to reach American military authorities. Failing, they are entertaining the U.S. press. Some of the new parties' names: Republican, Democratic, Communist, New Korea, Party for the Control of Law and Order, and Party for Cooperation with the Party for the Control of Law and Order...
What with one misunderstanding and an other, both Archie and O'Malley face a thorough legal shellacking. They are saved when practically all the Paramount players who could be rounded up stage a benefit show. The acts, stronger on noise than on finesse, reach some sort of climax in Cass Daley's confident rendition of You Can't Blame a Gal for Tryin'. Best acts: Betty Hutton singing The Hard Way in self-explanation to a psychoanalyst; Eddie Bracken suffering superbly as a double in a horse opera; Robert Benchley showing Bing Crosby's four...
...total tin stockpile of only 95,572 tons. (1944 consumption: 89,500 tons.) During the first six months of 1945, tin was disappearing at "an even greater rate." War's end did not help: as military demand lessened, civilian demand soared. Warned WPB: unrestricted consumption "might easily reach a 120,000-ton rate and [exhaust] reserve stocks in a very short period...
...itself a Guidance Officer. His book was brimful of Guidance. By internal evidence, the Guidance Officer seemed to be a half-robot, half-notetaking middleman on the faculty. His impressive task: to make "each individual understand his abilities and interests . . . relate them to life goals, and finally to reach a state of mature self-guidance." His tools include a panoply of complicated forms and tests...