Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guerre of Brigadier General "Jacques Leclerc," apparently to protect relatives in France. Last week his motorized forces, already well over 1,000 miles from their base at Fort Lamy in Chad, seized two Italian posts south of Tripoli. They still had 350 miles to go before they could reach the battered but unshattered Afrika Korps...
Best estimate is that this year income payments, after the deduction of personal income taxes, are likely to reach some $118 billion. If the U.S. people save as much as last year, they will put some $25 billion into savings accounts, war bonds, insurance premiums, payment of debts and mortgages. Washington hopes to cut the amount of purchasable civilian goods and services back to $75 billion. This leaves some $18 billion rolling around loose, and nothing to spend it on-money which may cheerfully be used to break price ceilings. Economists call this the inflationary gap; to Jimmy Byrnes...
Rockies. In Colorado, site of some of the country's most hair-raising ski runs, resorts are enjoying an unprecedented boom. Reason: within fairly easy reach of its skiing terrain are 13 Army posts, including Camp Hale (training grounds for U.S. ski troops), Camp Carson, Fort Logan, Buckley Field and Lowry Field. The huge Colorado Hotel at Glenwood Springs, where Teddy Roosevelt often tarried, is now full for the first time in years...
Sergei Korokov and his wife, Natasha, lived in a Russian village that was overrun by the Nazi Army. Sergei got orders to join the local force of Russian guerrillas. Escaping from his village, he killed a Nazi sentry, "felt the blade sink downward easily." To reach the guerrillas he had to shoot one German ("his body . . . rolled silently"), then-another ("his body crumpled...
Washing is entirely automatic and steam is the great sterling agent. Glasses are never touched by hand until they reach the table, while cutlery is sterilized in a rapidly whirling drum which occasionally leaves a slight film on the article, but guarantees its sterility...