Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unsavory list of similar offenses, Idaho, Oregon, Oregon State and Stanford were hit with fines...
...Webster's New International Dictionary (Unabridged)." *To prove Nike's prowess, the Army last week fired a Nike battery for newsmen at White Sands, N. Mex. The results were-at best-debatable. In one shot at a 500-m.p.h. aerial drone target, Nike registered a direct hit. In six other shots the Army said Nike scored shrapnel hits, claimed "kills" in each case. One Nike suffered an electronic brain storm and blew itself up. * Won after Leviero was the recipient of some other leaked documents: the notes of the Wake Island conference between Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur...
...networks are becoming the new money-heavy angels of the Broadway stage. CBS, sole backer of the smash-hit musical My Fair Lady, expects to net an additional $5,000,000 from the recorded music of the show, now on the market under the Columbia label. NBC, which has done well from its investment in Call Me Madam, Me and Juliet, Fanny and the current Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne hit, The Great Sebastians, will put up the money for a new musical, Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Helen Deutsch and Jerry Livingston. NBC also promised one novelty: before...
...many severely odd Christian offshoots, the Hutterites soon found themselves hounded and on the move. In the 18th century they emigrated to Russia, in the 19th to the U.S. In 1918 their antiwar sentiments got them chased out of South Dakota to Canada, but in the early 1930s drought hit South Dakota; South Dakota farmers left the state in droves, and the Hutterites were invited back...
...first time, the Atomic Energy Commission's Director of Raw Materials Jesse Johnson revealed exactly how big a business uranium has become. In testimony before a congressional subcommittee, Johnson reported that ore shipments from the four-state Colorado Plateau area (90% of U.S. total output) will hit 1.5 million tons worth $46.5 million in fiscal 1956. He predicted that within two years Plateau production will increase to 2,500,000 tons annually. Said Johnson: "During the past two months, the AEC has received and is actively considering more proposals for processing mills than it did in any two-year...