Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year, collections for the two funds amounted to $1,500,000,000. This year they are expected to reach nearly $2,000,000,000. New Dealers would like to boost this levy to $5,000,000,000 a year, put it all at the disposal of the Treasury, use it to pay for defense and figure on pouring money out to labor during the post-war depression. Some of the ways in which they would broaden...
...across the Channel. "This ship is cradling eight-five thousand gallons of gasoline in her hold," he explained, "and the Boche channel subs may not want to play cricket with us." That was in Halifax, just before she left dock. One hour and a half before she was to reach Liverpool the man on the bridge spotted a red flare thrown from a fishing sloop. All hands rushed on deck to see what was up. It happened inside of three minutes: a submarine, taking its cue from the flare, dropped its torpedo in a direct line for the British transport...
...first place the movies made it plainly evident that the Quaker flat pass early in the game, which that afternoon seemed to be all but glued in the waiting hands of Jack Morgan, Harvard's right end, before it bobbled out--actually was far out of his reach...
Final authority rests with the House Masters, who will reach a decision within the next two weeks. According to Eliot Perkins, Master of Lowell House, who is acting as leader of the movement in the houses, his colleagues favor the plan "in principle," but although the Masters urge all-out aid to the army, they do not want the plan put through at all if it is not done to the satisfaction of student and soldier...
This year's captain, Orme Wilson, is seeded fourth. None of these favored have faced any real competition as yet, but may well expect some by tomorrow when the whole tournament is scheduled to reach the round of sixteen...