Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a year ago the string of bases which formed the Navy's vital pipeline still ran far to the south, as far removed as possible from the Japs' reach. Supplies were piped to Nouméa in New Caledonia, base of the desperate drive to recover the Solomons. Extensions ran to Australia, base of the equally desperate drive to recover New Guinea...
Fair-skinned Dr. Dam, 49, is a Dane who taught biochemistry in Copenhagen until the Germans came. Then he managed to reach the U.S. via Finland, is now doing research in biochemistry at the University of Rochester's medical school. In the early '30s he noticed that baby chicks on a restricted diet had tiny hemorrhages under their skins. Their blood, he found, contained very little prothrombin, a blood element necessary for clotting. He cured them by feeding them pigs' liver, alfalfa, cabbage, spinach, etc. In 1935 he announced that he had isolated the curative substance from...
...ashamed now of the silence I affected after his Presidential defeat because I feared the ridicule of those who believed him to be a political clown. At least I had the redeeming grace to read, enjoy and tell others about his One World. When a majority of Americans reach Willkie's patriotic stature, America will finally attain true greatness...
Walker's words flashed across 7,000 miles of ocean via U.S. Army Signal Corps circuits to San Francisco. And there the monitors of the Blue Network picked them up-recorded them-wrote them down-and wired them east by fast overland telegraph-to reach TIME'S editors in New York in less than an hour's time...
...Nazi from way back. For years he kept a jump ahead of the Gestapo in Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Denmark. Trapped in Norway in 1940, he was "questioned" by the Gestapo for 35 days; it was seven months before he was able to walk again. In 1941 he managed to reach the U.S. Phantom Victory is partly ferocious satire, partly deadly earnest foreboding, but throughout it proclaims Author Lessner's ruthlessly simple conviction : "I say that Germany should be destroyed...