Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, like Brünnhilde suddenly emerging from Wotan's imprisoning fire, Kirsten Flagstad was reported to have appeared in Sweden. It was rumored that, with her quisling husband, she had fled from Norway without permission of the Nazis, was trying to reach...
...network claims that its ten stations can reach 21.7% of all the radio homes in the U.S., and that the package price for time on all ten is hardly more than for one of New York City's 50,000-watt stations...
...witness stand went nearly a dozen brokers who had specialized in getting Navy contracts for businessmen who did not know how. Their stories-and fees-made committee members splutter and reach for more depth charges...
...first-line bombers, several times that many in reserve, maintenance crews of 21,000 to 52,000 men, many thousands more of operational crews, supply and production men. To anyone hoping that U.S. production had enabled Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris' air force to reach such proportions, R.A.F. figures announced last week were revealing: aircraft operating from the British Isles are 87% British, 13% American. Once the U.S. air force in Britain gets into operation, however, those figures may be nearer a balance...
...grab for railroads was part of a great imperial scheme. Temptingly within reach of the Japanese is the chance to establish a continuous rail line from Shanghai 3,800 miles southwest to Singapore...