Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always amazes me to see the 'big names' who write TIME'S letters," wrote Canadian Reader Stan Obodiac of Yorkton, Sask. "One recent issue [Nov. 26], I believe, hit the alltime high: Ignazio Silone, Renata Tebaldi, Major General Chennault, Ed Sullivan, Floyd B. Odium, to name several...
...announced the White House at week's end, President Eisenhower will begin a threeday, seven-stop flying tour through the worst-hit of the drought areas, the skeleton-dry southern Plains states, to assess for himself the extent of the damage. In Wichita, Kans., Ike plans to join a specially convened meeting of farm, business and local government representatives to discuss possible improvements in the Government's already extensive relief program. No matter how high the new totals may go, ultimate relief can come only from a source uncontrolled by man: the saving beneficence of drenching rain...
...Fang (Nervous Norvus; Dot). One of those tough patter songs with a science-fiction twist: this cat was born on Mars and he's laying the other planets low. He wears "real nervous pegs with a crazy crease," and he's gonna "hit these chicks with a Martian jolt." Good for a spin...
...Richard Stankiewicz, 34, who with little more than an acetylene torch, a welder's tools and his own vivid imagination turns junk into sculpture. Says he: "I take material that is already degenerating, flaking and rusting and then try to make something beautiful out of it. It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty...
Republic Steel is projecting markets as far ahead as 1965. By then, it expects auto production to hit 10 million cars annually. Steel consumption will rise 36% in the appliance industry, another 34% in the office and household furniture, hospital equipment and toy industries. To meet the new demand, steelmen plan a 25% increase in their capacity by 1965, another 25% by 1975. Others are just as optimistic. Planemakers, who have the biggest backlog ($3.5 billion) of civilian plane orders in their history, feel that they are just getting started. "Of course I'm bullish," says Boeing President William...