Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each lane he snipped lengthened the distance that U.S. aid must go to reach the Indies, Singapore, Burma, China. More important than the rubber, oil, tin, platinum, coffee, quinine which the Jap's conquests brought him was his occupation of key points. A little farther and he could cut off the U.S. from all routes to the eastern battlefront except around Australia. But now the westernmost prong of the Japanese attack, in and around New Guinea, threatened even the U.S. route to Australia and raised yet another rampart across the Americas' Pacific routes...
...clue to Rommel's action could be found in the British statement several weeks ago that three out of five ships from Axis convoys trying to reach Libya were being sunk. The other two ships, bringing supplies, weapons and men, had given Erwin Rommel strength enough to strike back at the British...
Quizzical and obscure as one of his own birds, tall (6 ft. 4 in.), rangy Morris Graves lives alone with Edith, his pet dachshund. Uninterrupted by visitors (no roads reach his cabin), he often paints for ten hours at a stretch, takes an occasional job at the Seattle Art Museum. Enigmatic even to his closest associates, he loves snakes and gardening, thinks the Museum's show of his work is "all a mistake...
...Kashmir, the caravan met a band of soldiers, wearily prepared to fight yet another battle. Then, at a parley, they learned they were facing British border troops from Kashmir. All the Kazaks wanted, they told the Kashmir officials, was a place to graze, land where they could live. To reach their final camp the Kazaks had a last ordeal-to lead their camels and herd their sheep over the 11,300-foot Zoji-la Pass. When the great caravan pitched its tattered tents at Muzaffarabad, only 3,500 Kazaks were left...
More important to prospective draftees is the belief of Selective Service Chief Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey that the Army can reach this goal without drafting men with bona fide dependents. There are still 1,000,000 undrafted men in the Class 1-A pool of the first registration; from the second, on Feb. 16, General Hershey. expects to net easily another...