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Word: reaching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Quirino summoned those cabinet members who could reach the presidential palace. To the victims of Hibok-Hibok and of the typhoon, they diverted the $2,000,000 intended for the Huks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: From the Huks to Hibok-Hibok | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...consumers owe a record $46 billion. The Federal Reserve Board predicted that the figure would reach $50 billion before the end of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: $50 Billion I.O.U. | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Kommandatura would try to reach agreements on transportation rules and such matters; if successful, this agreement would result in the Russians lifting the blockade of Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Gentlemen, I Have a Plan | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Ralph Singleton, senior geneticist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, announced that he had "redesigned" the field corn plant, and had reduced its height from 14 to 6 feet to make it easier for a man to reach its top ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Worth Street, on Manhattan's lower West side, is the center of the U.S. cotton goods business. In a short reach of half a dozen run-down blocks lie many of the country's biggest and oldest cotton textile houses and the starchy Merchants and Arkwright clubs for Worth Street. Worth Street firms sold more than $2 billion worth of cotton cloth and yarns in 1947-90% of the output of all U.S. mills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worry on Worth Street | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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