Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-U-boat groups was the Navy's lack of extremely long-range air craft suitable for low level attack bombing required in anti-submarine tactics. To the Army went all the Liberators being delivered - and to the Army went the task of long-range patrols beyond the reach of the Navy's patrol planes. When we began to receive the needed bombers we took over...
...just when it is so important to get all these copies to the Coast on time-the war-burdened transcontinental trains are finding it harder than ever to make the express speeds at which TIME must travel to reach all our California subscribers by Friday...
...announced her candidacy for the State Legislature. She thus became the first U.S. hero's widow of World War II to run for political office. Her husband, Lieut. Colonel John Payne, son of a University of Texas professor, was in the first contingent of U.S. flyers to reach the Mediterranean. He was killed a year ago. Cairo's big army airport is named for him. Mrs. Payne, with a four-year-old daughter to support, has already begun studying law. Last week no male Texan appeared ungallant or injudicious enough to contest her candidacy...
...were welcome. When the word came to move, the weather hid the little party of 20 and their six truckloads of equipment-radio apparatus, tents, personal effects. Twenty-seven hours later the A.A.C.S. barge scraped to a landing at Munda. It was the first Air Forces unit to reach the island...
...luck or money to get into Manhattan's Copacabana (or other Durante nightspots in the past) have missed the full effect of Jimmy's comedy, which comes only from watching him work in a small joint where his extraordinary gusto can not only bounce forth but also reach him on the rebound from a close and delighted audience. Then Jimmy reaches a comic violence that makes his audience feel like spectators at a small Balkan...