Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overseas Army and Navy subscribers stationed beyond reach of this new Pacific Edition (or the special edition we are printing in Australia each week for General MacArthur's men) we have just made another big change in TIME's service. We began sending their copies by first class mail...
Unless the U.S., Russia and Britain can reach an agreement out of last week's conferences and those to follow, peace planners may as well stop talking about international cooperation and go back to power politics. Perhaps Russia, now proved unbeatable by arms and economically self-sufficient, is determined to play a lone hand anyway-but the U.S. and Britain must still...
Main Allied South Pacific base lies at the end of a 6,000-mile supply line across the Pacific Ocean. From there it takes cargo ships another three and a half to four days, zigzagging through sub-infested waters, to reach advance bases. The Munda push, small as it was compared to the invasion of Sicily, required months of preparation. The Allies were able to use 3,267 bottoms in the Mediterranean. The Navy had to make the best of a few score preparing for the Munda operation, shuttling them back & forth to move a load that could have been...
...Solomons chiefly with naval and air weapons. Once we can turn our face to the Pacific, the hop-skip to Vella Lavella will look like a pip-squeak. Then strategists can begin to contemplate the kind of spectacular bypassing that will be necessary if we ever expect to reach Tokyo, the kind of massive land invasions necessary to knock the Jap out of his main bases and hold them. Until they can turn around, the Allies will have to be satisfied with keeping the Jap jumping by pinching his protuberances...
...riveter had a tiny steel splinter imbedded deep in his left eye near the retina. Unable to reach it frontally the surgeon laid open the back of the eyeball. Then an assistant moved a pencil-like divining rod over the surface until he located precisely the right spot. The surgeon made two small incisions, moved the tip of an electromagnet close, and out popped the splinter...