Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Hansen emphasized that this is by no means the only means of attacking the problem and that he personally favored other methods of achieving full employment, enabling the worker to reach a higher standard of living. The question is, he said, whether or not the 30 hour week will do it if other methods fall...
...tangled, vicious fight marked by constant Jap infiltration behind our lines, by Jap ambushes and night raids. Americans had to fight even to reach the 24th Division cemetery, now well behind the front lines, so they could bury the dead. Said one officer: "The woods are full of Japs. You go through them, and they close in right behind you." The country is heavily brushed flats broken by precipitous hills honeycombed with Jap installations. On Hill 550, a long ridge from which sheer knobs jut at intervals, one knob held 30 pillboxes and gun positions...
Expressed in dollar bills laid end to end, it would reach from the earth to Venus. By comparison with the past, it was $104 billion more than the U.S. had spent - in war and peace - from 1789 to 1940. In cold figures, it was what the U.S. had spent on World War II from mid-1940 up through...
Back in Paris that afternoon Ed Kennedy broke his word. He first made some attempt to warn SHAEF (but not his colleagues) of what he was up to. He tried to reach General Allen by telephone, but was told that the General was too busy. According to Kennedy, he then warned Allen's aide, who said: go ahead and try to get it out, Ed; it's impossible. After also serving warning, just for good measure, on Lieut. Colonel Richard Merrick, chief U.S. press censor, Kennedy sneaked his story to London by telephone...
...from Tarakan will help ease the strain on Pacific shipping. Last week in Manhattan Frank J. Taylor, president of the American Merchant Marine Institute, appraised the task of supplying our rapidly expanding forces in the Pacific. His estimate: exclusive of Navy needs, when our service personnel and fighting men reach a strength of 3,000,000, a fleet of 180 deep-laden tankers must sail from West Coast ports every month on the long, slow trek across the vast Pacific...