Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British request for a greater exchange of classified atomic information with Great Britain and Canada. Another was that the British soon might demand a larger share of the crucial Belgian Congo uranium production, which is now shipped mostly to the U.S. The U.S. would probably have to reach some sort of atomic accord with Britain...
...what they believed to be the first air raid in the history of war. Unlike the people of Hiroshima in 1945, the Venetians of 1849 had plenty of warning that something bizarre was coming off. The Austrians, who perpetrated the deed, allowed rumors of a "secret weapon" to reach Venice in advance, and one Venetian artist drew a picture of what he thought would happen (see cut) and peddled it in the streets...
...prominent role in a real-life melodrama. He was aboard a transatlantic airliner, 600 miles off Ireland, when one of its engines caught fire and a propeller fell off. While the plane lost altitude, Danny and 53 fellow passengers put on life jackets. Turning back, the plane managed to reach Shannon, and Danny got into comedy again: "I can swim," he cracked, "but not 600 miles...
...student at Williams College, Terris Moore dreamed of climbing Mt. Everest. That dream never came true, but he did make the first ascent of Alaska's Mt. Bona (16,420 ft.) and was a member of the only party to reach the top of China's Mt. Minya Konka...
...prime commodities, copper and lead, which had taken a severe price shellacking as manufacturers lived off their inventories, made a comeback. Last week, as manufacturers began buying again, the price of both copper and lead rose 1? a lb. Nobody wanted to see them reach their recent inflated levels, but it was a healthy fact that the buyers' strike had stopped...