Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hays office, keeper of Hollywood's screen morals, not long ago forbade Republic, home of the Hollywood Western picture, to use the classic phrase, "Reach, buddy!", because it suggested excessive gunplay. Last fortnight the Hays office almost broke Republic's heart by scissoring the words, "Head for the border, boys!", from another Western: they intimated that the U.S.'s good neighbor, Mexico, was a haven for outlaws...
...factors, wind, current, competition, and the stroke rowed, probably in that order of importance, are the foundations on which conclusions about a time trial are built. With these in hand, Bolles can generally predict to within two seconds the time his boats will do over the course before they reach the starting line...
...from South China. Flying Fortresses, such as those evacuated from Java to Australia, could easily bomb the great Jap base on Formosa, 300 miles southeast of the Chinese airdrome at Lishui. With flights no longer than Fortresses have made in other battle areas, bombers from Lishui and Chuhsien could reach Kobe or Kyoto in Japan itself...
Since 1942's carloadings are making history, the railroads expect to need up wards of 1,800,000 cars to carry the fall traffic peak, which appears likely to reach an alltime record. To meet this demand the Office of Defense Transportation had requested 130,000 new cars for delivery during the last eight months of the year. These, in addition to the 45,000 cars which the railroads were authorized to get by May, would give the railroads some reserve against unpredictable peak loadings...
...will probably reach some agreement with the University now, but the union will insist on reinstating waitresses as in the past at the end of the war," the organizer said...