Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flew from Chungking to Sian (400 miles, five hours), went on by train to the Yellow River (70 miles, five days, one wreck, one washout). There they gave him a horse, and for three solid weeks he rode ten hours a day, sometimes on ledge-narrow mountain trails, to reach the Chin Valley. He got there just in time to send us one of the most important dispatches of the war -about how the Chinese had routed the Japs in the Chungtiao Mountains. (The Japs haven't completely occupied Shansi...
British warships and Allied bombers will first pound the invasion point. Invasion boats, each carrying 120 men, will then bring up the first attack wave of 50,000 troops. Only 13,000 of these will reach shore. Half of a second wave of 50,000 will also be killed by defending submarines and aircraft. The survivors of the first 100,000 men will establish a bridgehead extending perhaps five or six miles inland, although by then 90,000 of them will have been killed, captured or wounded. Other waves will follow. By the third day the Germans will have drawn...
...Thesis. Jerry Voorhis starts with the incontrovertible fact that the national debt is rising at an appalling rate. He guesses it may reach $300 billions before war and reconstruction are done...
Inland Ships. Although Consolidated is inland and had never built ships, Alden Roach grabbed all the Navy and Maritime Commission contracts he could reach. He had a plan. Consolidated would prefabricate ships in the plant at Maywood, trans port parts 22 mi. by truck and assemble them in yards at Wilmington and Long Beach. In August 1941 Alden Roach was upped to the top. He went right on expanding the company in all directions. He cagily hired Captain Harry B. Hird, former commandant of marine construction at Pearl Harbor, had him ready to run the huge consolidated naval-craft plant...
...Long Beach municipal docks, and he moored completed hulls there. When the turbines arrived he devised a brand-new method to install them through the ship's sides. Another timesaver: giant "bathtubs" at Maywood give Navy self-propelled landing boats complete dock trials, uncover bugs within handy reach of a wrench. A third trick: when Kaiser's Fontana steel plant needed a blast furnace in a hurry, Alden Roach built him one (Consolidated had never touched furnaces before...