Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slash. But the auction settled down at $95 million; then the full committee sliced it to $75,000,000 before the bill went to the House floor. Fighters Taber and Oklahoma's Jed Johnson, veteran Henderson-haters, vowed to carry on, fight right to the House floor. Their goal: to see to it that Henderson got by on what was finally approved, to make him use volunteer price watchers...
...Treasury Department's mammoth wartime tax bill will go to the floor of the House by mid-July some $2.1 billions short of the Treasury's $8.7 billion goal. This appeared certain as the House Ways & Means Committee, after months of work on the biggest, toughest tax bill of all time, finally got the measure near the floor. Prodded into belated action by the President, wrestling with frayed tempers, the committee...
...British were crying for evaporated milk under Lend-Lease, so AMA set out to boost U.S. production from 57.000,000 cases a year to 100,000,000 by the simple device of bidding the price up from $2.63 to $3.55 a case. The price mechanism worked like magic; the goal was reached almost overnight. Then the British found powdered milk could be shipped in one-quarter the space, said they could take only 7,000,000 cases, left AMA holding the bag and afraid of creating a minor panic by getting out of the market...
...Stanford University in the early '30s, Will Jr. set a 100-yd. backstroke swimming record that still stands, was a four-goal man on the polo team. For a while he edited an off-the-campus paper stridently called New, once scooped the college and West Coast newspapers by tracking down a "kidnapped" college queen. He graduated from college in 1935, the year his father died with Wiley Post in the Point Barrow, Alaska plane crash. With his share of the estate he bought the Citizen, was a full-fledged publisher at 23. He kept a union shop, covered...
...person who became known as Buddha devoted his life to seeking a way out of the unending cycles of rebirth to which the Hindu and his universe, through Siva, were bound. Through asceticism and contemplation Buddha found his goal of complete and final extinction (nirvana). His perfect enlightenment (bodhi) in this matter was what caused him to smile, and all his images to smile. On 57th Street in Manhattan last week they still smiled...