Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helping them sell their own goods and services too. Since then he has poured $20,000,000 back into new equipment, has located over 300 new industries to ship via M. & St. L., and has diversified its freight load over the seasons, so that its accountants no longer automatically reach for the red ink seven months out of every twelve...
Most important point in Major Ascroft's paper: "We believe it is better not to operate in forward areas [on patients with head wounds], provided that the patient can reach a fully equipped base hospital within 48 to 72 hours of injury." This agrees with the late, great Dr. Harvey Cushing's World War I finding that "incomplete operations were more dangerous than a few more hours of delay." But Major Ascroft points out that "in this war most casualties have not reached a base hospital under 48 hours or more...
...general quarters." The port gunner, a blond youngster named Richard Dudziak, started to fire into the engine of an approaching plane. It looked like an American SBD but the location of two blue-burning exhausts meant a Jap torpedo plane. As the plane passed over, Skipper Berlin could almost reach and touch the red ball on the wings. One wing tip knocked off the Who, Me?'s antenna, and another scraped the forward gunner. The plane swept like a piece of paper into the darkening...
...lose, and hope had flowed easily. Now Adolf Hitler said they could still hope: "The German people and its soldiers, who have not allowed any traitor chief to arise, are shaping the impregnability of the Reich. . . . The war will be fought fanatically to the end. . . . We can not reach America-but one state [presumably Britain] is in our reach and that we shall hold responsible...
...Certain churchmen" may well be Norway's six Lutheran Bishops still at liberty but not officiating, since they refuse to recognize the quisling church setup. Out of reach of questioners is Bishop Eivind Berggrav, whom the Nazis guard in solitary confinement in a cottage near Oslo. Bishop Berggrav observed his 59th birthday last month. As a birthday present, the Nazis took him, under heavy guard, to the dentist...