Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweeping High Command shakeup, hailed by a jubilant press as a sure sign that "fighting days are here again," General Sir John Greer Dill, who will reach the retirement age of 60 Christmas Day, announced his own replacement as Chief of Staff by General Sir Alan Francis ("Wizard") Brooke, 58, Commander in Chief of Home Forces and mechanized-warfare specialist. But popular Wizard Brooke will also reach retirement age in 20 months. Named Vice Chief was the ranker, Major General Archibald Nye, who is only...
...order, nor will Congress pass legislation ordering, a so-called closed shop. . . . The Government will never compel this 5% [unorganized miners] to join the union by a Government decree. That would be too much like the Hitler methods toward labor. The President asked the six men to confer, to reach an agreement, to report back to him two days later...
...resort to compulsory savings, now in force in Britain. Meanwhile, the Government must have some kind of price control, to keep the cost of defense from soaring so high that Mr. Morgenthau cannot reach...
...Topeka under control. Said Governor Ratner, before he went back to his interrupted breakfast: "We should thank our heavenly father that we have only make-believe blitzkriegs in America today. And we should be eternally grateful to the men who are taking this training so that none will ever reach our shores...
While a temporary compromise is in effect that the Union shall postpone demands for a closed shop and that the University shall not insist on an open shop contract, the two negotiating parties must now reach an amicable agreement, or else it was agreed that the matter be referred to the State Mediation Board, "whose decision shall be final and binding on the University and the Union...