Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more streamlined and less hampered by red tape than Washington's WPB had ever been. It had brought Chinese industry and government together for the first time. It had taught Chinese industrialists much of Western know-how. In its own small way it would help shorten the stretch drive against Japan, and aid in Chinese post-war recovery...
...telecast of Mother Goose songs ushered Peter into the wonderful audio-visual-tactual routine that was to keep him fascinated during all eight years of studying the "Common Learnings." At first he disliked being one of the group who got their long vacation in winter (his only free stretch in summer came when the National Teachers'. Alliance local struck for vacations with...
...last we came to a high wooden wall and went through the gates'. Before us stretched the great prison compound of Dachau. This must be at least one square mile in extent. In & out of this vast stretch of open compound studded with low barracks were swarming the liberated men of Dachau. I cannot pre tend to estimate the number with any exactness. But there were many thousand...
...freight, snailing over a 33-mile stretch of track, was derailed 16 times...
...British closed up to a 40-mile stretch of the Elbe southeast of Hamburg. While the U.S. Ninth Army marked time, guarding its bridgeheads, the First crashed into Dessau, at the point where the Mulde River flows into the Elbe...