Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans laid last week will shove U.S. labor deeper into politics than ever before. Sidney Hillman, making a comeback after his unhappy experience as a Government official in OPM, won the consent of all 40 C.I.O. unions to draft all the men he wants. Henceforth he can reach into any union, pick out the best administrative, research, publicity or speechmaking talent...
Winter Promise. The new tactics had limitations. The maximum reach of fighter-escorted raids from Britain was probably no more than 400 miles, taking in the Ruhr industrial area but not much more. Even with the creation of the Fifteenth...
State governments, which expected the war to ruin their finances, discovered last week that their tax receipts will reach an alltime high of $5,099,000,000 this year. The Federation of Tax Administrators reported that booming sales of liquor and cigarets have nearly made up for loss of gasoline taxes; personal income taxes have jumped $61 million, corporation income taxes $118 million...
When she dies, Danny makes the great decision, prepares to bum his way to bookloving Manhattan. He will never reach it in a Farrell novel: Novelist Farrell is about to drop Danny in favor of a new character named Bernard Claire. Farrell's next book will report Hero Claire's career among Manhattan's intellectuals during the boom years and the depression. Says Novelist Farrell slyly...
Said the Rev. Wilfrid R. Johnson of Truro: "People in these days 'pass away' or 'reach port.' They do not die. Sentimentality is spreading and it is encouraged by the action of scattering of ashes. . . . People will give extraordinary directions about the taking of their ashes to a particular spot or out to sea. ... It should be our duty to take a firm stand. . . . We are not called upon to bless popular practices...