Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important military requirements (this compares with a former winter use of about 1,700,000 barrels daily of which 550,000 was gasoline and 350,000 fuel oil). The total eastern supply available by current means of transportation needs to be boosted another 200,000 barrels a day to reach this minimum...
...battlefield of 1942." He knew, and Hitler knows, that 1942 is the Germans' one year to fight for the bridge. The year is running out, and Hitler's armies are still at the approaches. The Allies' hope is to hold the Germans there. If the Germans reach the bridge this year, the Allies will probably lose all the Middle East...
...this country about 55 are working for the Government, either in the forces or in the factories, or in other branches of Government service. Almost all the rest are doing work, which even if it serves the civilian population, is necessary to the conduct of the war. . . . To reach our present level, you (in the U.S.) would need to have nearly 40,000,000 people working for the Government...
...United States is now producing the above four types at the rate of many hundreds a month. The schedule originally set by President Roosevelt was 500 four-engine bombers a month. After Pearl Harbor the President ordered this schedule doubled, and under it the United States is due to reach a production of 1,000 a month in 1943. British production of equivalent types is believed to be several hundred a month...
Main difference is that this year's oyster haul is estimated at only 15,000,000 bushels, 20% below last year and the smallest in 21 years. One reason: an oyster takes four to five years to reach full maturity, but because of starfish, drills, other oyster hazards the 1939 baby crop (ticketed for 1942 plates and palates) was below par. But they will taste as good as ever, thanks to drenching August rains which washed larger amounts of minerals from the land onto oyster beds...