Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willing and able to put on such a show at this stage of the war. It seemed to indicate more clearly than ever that they were determined to throw everything into a defense in front of the Rhine (TIME, Dec. 4). It might make the Rhine much harder to reach than the Allies originally expected-but it would simplify, and perhaps even hasten, Allied victory in the west...
...when the Home Guard was the backbone of home defense, are not so ready to laugh. The Volksstürmer have done an immense amount of work on Germany's border fortifications. The East Prussian Gauleiter boasted that in 100 days they had dug enough antitank ditches to reach from Königsberg to Lisbon. By taking over garrison duties in the rear, the Volkssturm releases better soldiers for the front lines. Whether fighting or digging, they receive Wehrmacht pay and equal allowances for dependents...
Even from the new airdromes on Saipan, the reach to Tokyo (1,500 mi.) was a long one. The Superfortresses, built for just such a job, had to go out with cut-down bomb-loads and carefully calculated fuel allowances to make the run and get home. But as airmen worked into intimate acquaintanceship with their massive, wondrously complicated weapon, the assaults were stepped up both in timing and in loads dropped. This week, when the B-29s had struck the great industrial center at Nagoya a second time, the force on Saipan could count five assaults...
Harry Hopkins, to the surprise of no one, emerged once again as a potent White House adviser. Safely hidden away in his remodeled Georgetown house, he was beyond the reach of captious Congressmen. Close observers spotted the Hopkins hand in the appointment of Secretary of State Stettinius and his new assistants (see FOREIGN RELATIONS). Again, the Hopkins trademark appeared on the brief campaign which boomed OPAdministrator Chester Bowles for Commerce. Now, for any new shifts in the offing, Washington kept its eye on the house in Georgetown, where the unofficial Assistant President of the U.S. still spun his webs...
...industries engaged in reconversion planning along with their war work, that the jobs of reconversion and postwar employment are less fearsome, the closer they come. N.A.M. predicted that: 1) 95% of all U.S. industry could complete reconversion within eight weeks; 2) 76% of the manufacturers could reach peak production in that time; 3) postwar employment in manufacturing would be 30% higher than...