Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, which in one generation has reached a volume of $8 billion yearly, will hit $20 billion yearly by 1965, predicts Hoffman Radio Corp. President H. Leslie Hoffman...
...gave an official opinion about the much-disputed case of Aikichi Kuboyama, radioman of the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon, who died last year of hepatitis (with jaundice symptoms) six months after his craft was hit by fallout ashes from the first U.S. experimental H-bomb blast at Bikini. Japanese doctors insisted that the hepatitis had been caused by radiation damage, and Kuboyama became a propaganda hero to the Communists. But, said Assistant U.S. Defense Secretary Frank B. Berry last week, endorsing the opinion of U.S. doctors who had investigated the case, "the man most certainly died of ordinary jaundice...
...Little Bit Tense. The experts totted up the results. When the returns hit Park Forest mailboxes, the town exploded: 135 children had been flunked. Angry parents stormed the superintendent's office and school-board meetings. What, they wanted to know, had walking like a duck or hopping like a bunny to do with a child's maturity? One mother protested that her son had been rejected simply because he "was a little bit tense...
...dearest friend, a' fat, good-natured girl with intellectual pretensions named Marsha Zelenko. Marsha lives with her parents in an apartment decorated with Mexican copper plates, Chinese screens and African masks. Papa Zelenko strums the balalaika: Mama Zelenko pounds out Bach on the piano. After Margie scores a hit in a Hunter College production of The Mikado, Marsha gets her a job as dramatic coach at a children's camp in the Adirondacks. Across the lake is an adult-resort camp named South Wind, and South Wind, Mama Morgenstern snorts, is nothing less than Sodom...
...eight Atlantic states staggered out from the most costly floods in U.S. history last week, underwriters reported that insurance will cover only 5 to 10% of losses totaling $1.6 billion. Worst hit were railroads, industrial plants, cities and houses, most of which were massively insured against every disaster but the one that struck. "There just isn't any flood insurance available." lamented a spokesman for the New Haven railroad, whose $10 million losses were among the ravaged area's heaviest...