Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Envisioning a sad and sugarless day, proprietors of the local eating-places have removed their sugar bowls from the reach of eager "sweet-thieves" to the safe confines of the counter...
...that point nearly all of Malaya's tin and rubber was gone; now only the naval base was left and its site. Singapore, was already within such close reach of the Japanese Air Force that the base could no longer be called importantly naval...
...north, the remnants of an enemy expeditionary force of 100,000 slogged their way through the clinging goo of winter-flooded rice paddy fields as fast as heavy legs could take them. But they had a long way to go before they could reach the protection of their own artillery stalled along the Milo river...
Ships. The Maritime Commission is optimistic. Actual merchant-ship launchings last month hit a 6,000,000-ton-a-year rate, only 2,000,000 tons below the President's 1942 goal. To reach it, shipbuilders will go on a seven-day week, add "a few" shipways to the present 406 (for ships over 300 ft.), draw needed labor from a 200,000-man pool now in training. Mass orders have enabled some yards to rationalize their production methods, approximate an assembly-line technique...
...only must the evident forms of venality be stamped out but the less notorious and more pernicious forms of minority rule will have to be done away with before labor can reach its full effectiveness in national life. Unions exist, especially in the older and more established A.F. of L., which have not held elections in years. Some are merely the personal property of their executive officers, who carry on a policy not for the good of the membership but as the owners of a vested right. The executive council of the A.F. of L. itself exerts an autocratic power...