Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hudson Bay), Southampton Island, Fort Chimo (near Ungava Bay) and Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. They lie far north of what is likely to be the real northeast gateway to Europe: the great base at Goose Bay on Labrador's Hamilton Inlet. To bring Goose within easier reach of the continental U.S., the U.S. Army built a base at Mingan, Quebec, which increased the pay load, reduced the fuel load of planes flying through this gateway to Europe. Canada acquired this airfield too by the new deal...
...Parran's efforts, the national fight against venereal disease has not been going well. Syphilis last year was up 21%; gonorrhea, 28%. Thirty states now require a Wassermann test of prospective brides and grooms, three more of grooms, three others an affidavit of freedom from infection. But these reach only a small proportion of the whole population...
...time I reach the Mediterranean, I am convinced the Germans will have evacuated the Balkans. When this happens I will be pleased to come in with our troops." He stopped smiling. "I should be miserable writing a column in Chicago* when in the Balkans it was being decided whether the United States, Great Britain and Russia can live together...
...presses of the mighty, august London Times last week came first copies of an "air edition," expected to reach the U.S. within 48 hours of publication. Unlike the Daily Mail's weekly transatlantic digest (TIME, Dec. 27), whose U.S. circulation has now reached 4,500, the Thunderer's new edition is daily, full-sized, complete-but printed on India paper. For the present it will be sold in certain European countries, distributed free to a few key people in the U.S. and Canada...
Speaking of distinctions, Bud Bloom at 2200 Sunday night was working madly away to reach an "SOL" decision on Japan before the deadline. Poto Holm and Johnny Justice could have told him that two weeks ago. The Japs might as well give up when these reports go in to Washington...