Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Truman: I do, too. But I do hope we can reach some decision on this and get things started...
Everybody had ideas. Ideas were so thick that Luckman's secretary, Miss Iona Thornton, said, "It was like being knee-deep in alligators. You never knew when one might reach out and bite...
...that figure the $600 million envisaged for credits, and the $150 million for a monetary fund, we reach a total for the Three Year Plan of $1,350,000,000-$450 million a year for the next three years. As a price for preventing Stalin from taking over China and organizing its resources and man power for war against us, the figure is not high...
...Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace soon learned that in other countries the low standard of living put the price (25?) out of reach of mass buyers...
General Electric's Charles E. Wilson was inclined to feel the same way. There was no economic mandate, said he, for a bust to follow the current boom. "The reasons which underlie our inflation seem to have been more solid than we anticipated. ... It is difficult not to reach the conclusion, in the face of continued buying at high prices, that these prices are more strongly based, and the whole price structure less vulnerable, than was the case...