Word: salvos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roses. In Naples, the same week, Father Lombardi landed at the Capodichino airport-just as a huge truck sped into the city, bearing, under a gilded, pillared canopy, the picture of the Madonna di Pompeii. A salvo of 21 guns sounded in greeting, showers of flower petals filled the air and hundreds of thousands of candles were...
...first salvo, he charged that "in the past nine years Behn and his board of directors . . . have received more than $3,700,000 in salaries and fees while the . . . stockholders . . . have received nothing." l.T. & T. had not paid a dividend in 14 years, he pointed out, even though it showed profits in eleven of those years. Last year, when almost everyone else was making money, l.T. & T. lost $10 million. How, demanded Ryan, could the management explain away such a record...
...answering salvo, pro-Picassos quoted Jaime Sabartes, Picasso's secretary and friend. Sabartes concedes that Picasso's work is sometimes, by ordinary standards, ugly. But he has an explanation. Wrote Sabartes, in a book published in Paris (Picasso, Braun...
Over the past few months, Stassen has listened to such political shop talk coolly and appraisingly, like a man watching the gunnery calculations before a salvo is fired. His backers insist that G.O.P. bigwigs, camped in Washington, are still underestimating the effectiveness of their candidate's missionary work within the party. He has done his persuasive best to help the campaigns of young G.O.P. candidates. In his months of travel, Stassen has talked to a score of state chairmen and other Republican local officials. When he met men who were backing either Taft or Dewey he did not argue...
Battle Results. Radar's fantastic capabilities have been dramatized again & again in battle. It was radar that enabled a .U.S. warship to smash the battleship Jean Bart at Oran with one salvo from 26 miles away. German radar-directed fire sank the British battle cruiser Hood, and British radar in turn tracked down the Bismarck. It was a radar operator who gave the tragically ignored warning of approaching Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor...