Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quota. As a result-and until more training camps could be readied—the Army cut its first draft calls down to 10,000 for November and will probably call about 20,000 in December. As of Sept. 1, there were 1,504,357 men in the armed forces (the goal...
...Distressed Butler. It must be said that Red police and troops behaved with almost commendable restraint, in the fray at Brandenburger Tor. They had no goal there: trouble was forced upon them. Their masters and the masters' stooges behaved infinitely worse, earlier in the week, at the City Hall, where they had a coldly planned objective. There they clamped a final, successful siege on the building, drove out the City Assembly, and-incidentally but treacherously-seized 46 hapless West-sector police...
...woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives the dispossessed their only hope...
...them to production boosts. Two years ago, Dosco's miners were digging only 1.6 tons of coal per man-day (against 6.3 in the U.S.). Two weeks ago, Dosco reported that June production was up to 2.53 tons-near the prewar peak -and still rising toward a goal of 4.5 tons in 1953. Much of the increase is due to mechanization, which the miners once fought, now support...
Yankee Dash. On the first play after the kickoff in the third quarter, Hunchy plunged off tackle, sprinted 60 yards before a Yankee nailed him. On the 27-yard line, the Yankees held. The Dodgers tried another field goal, but the Yankees blocked it. From then on, Rickey got the kind of speed he liked to see-but it was all done by the rival Yankees, in particular by Spec Sanders, Negro Buddy Young, and a Negro rookie named Tom Casey. Casey raced 94 yards to a touchdown, coolly pointing out to his blockers, a threatening Dodger safety man halfway...