Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, in his home in Albuquerque, 80-year-old Elfego Baca ate his last hot-pepper supper, smoked his last black cigar. Then he died quietly in bed. On a chair within arm's reach hung a well-cleaned, highly-polished gun, with nine notches in the handle...
...confer frequently with Catcher Frankie Hayes-whose dope was apparently sound. Feller struck out twelve of the league-leading Detroit Tigers (including Hank Greenberg and Rudy York twice apiece), gave only four hits, walked five, won in a 4-2 breeze. Said he, afterwards: "I will be able to reach a keener edge as I go along...
Still not on the best-seller lists, the Harvard Committee Report. "General Education in a Free Society," now in its fifth printing, had sold 9.000 copies up to yesterday morning. It was indicated that sales would reach 10,000 by the end of the book's first month in retail stores...
Rubber. Plenty of natural rubber is expected to reach the U.S. before long. Rubber producers believe they will find upwards of 200,000 tons of crude rubber ready for shipment when they return to their plantations. One reason: it would have been physically impossible for the Japs to trudge through the thousands of square miles of jungles hacking every tree to destruction...
...Small quantities of China's rare and delicately flavored teas may reach the U.S. before Christmas. Dutch tea experts are en route to India, will move soon to the Netherlands East Indies...