Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They got the final proof last week when B-29 Superfortresses of the Twentieth U.S. Air Force bombed the great Palembang oil refineries in remote southeastern Sumatra in the longest-range air assault of the war. If the B-29s could reach Palembang they could reach anywhere in Japan's homeland islands or in Greater East Asia...
...argument for the clean beauty and intelligence of modern architecture, it also makes obvious how much a luxury good modernism remains. Many of the buildings in the book are obviously pleasure domes of great expense. All of the buildings imply the services of a modern architect, beyond the reach of ordinary pocketbooks except in the case of a few new low-cost housing developments. Modern architecture for the general public still waits for public taste to demand it from reactionary building contractors and building-trade unions...
...Drugstore Market. But the bulky, expensive (total cost: $12.25) four volumes had little attraction for the 5 & 10 and drugstore trade. And the Beards know well that if history as a social weapon is to achieve its highest potency, it must reach that market. When, in 1942, Doubleday Doran's Freeman Lewis began publishing a series of cheap, good, educational books (The New Home Library), the Beards, then in their late 60s, offered to take on the long, gruelling job of writing a new popular U.S. history...
Plane v. Bicycle. Kluge was in a pretty fix. His supply lines had been bomb-ravaged (in three days more than 600 locomotives, nearly 7,000 freight cars had been destroyed). Reinforcements were delayed (one unit bicycled nine days to reach the front...
...striking south toward Falaise and the Americans striking north 12 miles below, the Seventh Army finally began to pull back. By this time Kluge was bringing part of the Fifteenth Army down to hold the line of the Seine but it was a question whether the Seventh Army could reach the Seine. The tattered Seventh might wriggle out of its corridor but the roads all the way back to the Seine were being strafed, and the bridges across it had been bombed out. In a coffin-shaped area roughly outlined by the Seine, Falaise, Argentan and ancient fivreux, Eisenhower...