Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this calculation, the U.S. will provide 25% of Britain's food supply. The billion will also be spent in a fashion that will reach more people more directly than at any time since the defense program got under way. Orders . for arms filter slowly into the spending stream, but purchases for farm products, partly because the Department of Agriculture's Surplus Marketing Administration has long been set up and functioning, can pour out like a flash flood. Half a billion will go for meat, fish, fats, lard - mostly pork. Some $250,000,000 will go for dairy products...
...Maritime Commission's Emory Scott Land was still speaking when the S.S. Patrick Henry started down the ways in Baltimore. Surprised Mrs. Henry Agard Wallace just managed to whack the prow with a bottle before the ship was out of reach. One explanation offered: Maryland's rambling Senator George Radcliffe had talked so long he threw the schedule out of whack...
...Bell" both came close to forcing reluctant admissions of their right to the fabulous title, on both occasions the book reviewers made notable goal line stands to keep the slate clean and sustain the hopes of countless knights of the pen that they would be the first to reach the end zone of literary immortality...
With the victory almost in their hands, the climbers had to turn back because they lacked time enough to complete the climb. All were confident that it could be done, however, and they hope to reach the top next summer...
...down; but Joe made no attempt to pin him-he simply began to hammer the living daylights out of him." Herb "must have been absorbing quite a drubbing for the moment he heard my voice he called . . . 'Jump in, Bill!' " But Joe had a long reach, held Bellamy off with one fist while he wore out Herb with the other...