Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stronghold is the range of the Pindus Mountains, extending like a probing finger from Albania and Yugoslavia into the heart of Greece. In those crags Markos Vafiades can claim to rule. And his influence extends to any rocky slope throughout Greece where armed men may hide beyond the easy reach of troops not anxious to stage a manhunt...
...Export-Import Bank loan. That meant electric shovels, compressed-air drills and crushing plants for the Iron Mountain. It also meant further improvements on the railroad, new facilities at the port. With all that done, say in two years, Itabira hoped to reach its immediate target: a yearly output of 1,500,000 tons...
When he catches a train of such waves, Dr. Deacon looks on the weather map to check on where they are coming from. Usually their origin is a storm far out toward North America. The wind may never reach England, but the long, low swells, sweeping along at 70 miles an hour, much faster than ordinary ocean waves, do not stop until they hit a shoreline. Dr. Deacon has measured waves at Pendeen which came all the way from a storm off Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America...
More for Farmers. Despite the sharp drop in commodity prices last month, farm income in the first quarter of this year is expected to reach a peak of $6.4 billion. For farmers, the only effect of the commodity drop, reported the Department of Agriculture, was to cut the size of their increase over 1947 from 12% for the month of January to an estimated 6% for the first quarter...
...some important respects The Search is a disappointment. Producer Wechsler and Director Fred Zinneman are not, at best, very vigorous or inventive moviemakers. Their subject, enormous almost beyond tragic reach, is frequently reduced to the scale of gracious sentimentality. The moral complexities of the subject are dealt with so shyly that one can scarcely be sure they are consciously dealt with at all.-Despite its lack of real-life vitality (as in Shoeshine The Search may be a popular success. If so, it will help Hollywood find the courage for more such ventures. A studio willing to go the whole...