Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newport was isolated, though not invaded; the industrial areas of New Jersey and Pennsylvania were cut off from each other and threatened by a new enemy advance. New York and Boston were besieged. Columns were poised along the upper Potomac, threatening Washington. It looked as if the enemy might reach the Mississippi before winter...
...Britain. Nazi submarines slinking out from Dakar sank so much British shipping around Freetown that convoying through the port was ended early in July. With the waters off West Africa no longer safe, supply ships now have to swing far out into the Atlantic, take weeks longer to reach Britain...
...plant and equipment. From Tacoma, Wash, to Bath, Me., its working crews are on the go in three shifts 24 hours a day, 48 hours a week. The number of men employed has increased from 167,274 to 375,000, by next summer will reach...
During the bitter winter of '66-'67, which choked off ferry traffic in New York harbor, it took longer to reach Manhattan from Brooklyn than from Albany. This gave John Roebling a chance to carry out a pet project which previously had been laughed down: the great Brooklyn Bridge with its 1,600-ft. center span. Brooklyn Bridge cost him his life: a ferryboat crashed into a pier on which he was standing, crushed his foot, gave him tetanus...
...alleviated. The concerts drew such phenomenal crowds this year that the Festival management plans to increase the number next season, and plans also to sponsor opears given by the Music School. Such a program of expansion might well precede a lowering of admission prices, gradually bringing the concerts within reach of a larger section of the public. With the Stadium, it is largely a question of which is to come first, the chicken or the egg. Is the public to get over being soloiststruck, and start patronizing orchestral concerts on the merits of the music alone, or is the Stadium...