Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beaut. In Goulburn, New South Wales, Contestant Frederick Newling outglamored eleven girls, managed to reach the finals of a "lovely legs" contest...
Most of the clamor for income-tax reduction was made last year by Republicans. Twice, Minnesota's Harold Knutson, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, saw bills of his sponsoring reach the White House only to be vetoed by Harry Truman. At the end of the last session of Congress, he came up with a third, calling for a cut of $5.6 billion...
...also the scene of one of Britain's most dogged (and futile) essays in civilization. A ragged parallelogram of 5,200 square miles of barren territory, it is tucked away at the southwest corner of the North West Frontier, at a point where the Punjab and Kashmir reach out toward Afghanistan and Baluchistan. It is inhabited by various tribes who, finding their land too poor for a decent standard of living, have for years supported themselves by raids on their less impoverished neighbors...
...bribe them to return to Europe. They tell the immigrants "that they have been 'exported' here for slave labor." They offer to "produce the 'ransom' to 'rescue' the D.P.s if they will join the ranks of the Reds." Even when the immigrants reach their new homes in Canada, said Bishop Ladyka, the "Communist plea" continues by mailed pamphlets which warn the immigrants that Canada is controlled by "fascists and capitalists," and to return to Europe "before it is too late...
With Britain strapped, even this temporary agreement had been hard to reach. Finally, Canada agreed to leave the wheat contract as it stood, guaranteeing Britain 160 million bushels in the current crop year at $1.55 a bushel. For the rest, Britain would take less of other foodstuffs (e.g., cheese and bacon) at higher prices, generally about 15% above 1947 figures...