Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced that the major drive had begun. General Douglas MacArthur had long anticipated a heavy attack at Lingayen. An earlier thrust, in which the Japanese tried to put down troops from 154 motorboats, had been beaten off by a Philippine division which did not let a single Jap soldier reach shore alive. But more attempts were bound to come...
...passengers, some 500 died beyond the reach of Navy patrol boats that fearlessly whisked through the minefield...
...During World War I, labor and management took 31 days to reach a stabilizing agreement...
...present earnings-by turning over to labor more than half the increase in their long-too-low profits (which were $359,700,000 for the first nine months of this year). But next year, with an absolute minimum of new equipment to handle wartime traffic, the rails may reach the point of diminishing returns, and their earnings may suffer...
...inchers, some said to be 18-inchers) cut into the hills' rocks, British, Canadian, Indian and native troops. The colony's only good airfield is on the Kowloon side, was seized by the Japanese. Hong Kong's defenders always planned to hold until relief could reach them from Singapore. But this citadel, too, was under attack, for its existence...