Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yugoslavia Trouble. Through seven hours of shot, shell and massive irrelevancies the debate boomed on-with each side charging the other with responsibility for cutting the Administration's request in committee. Finally the House voted 284 (124 Republicans, 160 Democrats) to 120 (70 Republicans, 50 Democrats) to give Dwight Eisenhower the bitter $3.6 billion for foreign aid and not a cent more...
World War II produced no more unlovely objects than the lumbering, boxlike boats known as landing craft, tank (LCT). In grunting, ponderous procession, they nosed in on landing beaches, dropped gaping jaws to disgorge tanks, trucks and men on shell-torn beaches. Their mission was dangerous but not dashing, and their ill-assorted officers were drawn together in a curiously defiant camaraderie of the mocked...
TRANS-EUROPEAN PIPELINE to carry oil from Mediterranean to North Sea is planned by Royal Dutch-Shell group. To cost up to $280 million, project is for 30-in. line running 700 miles from Marseilles north through France and Germany to Rotterdam with spur branching off to Paris. Possible connection: a line running from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 185 miles south through Ruhr industrial area...
...company must prove that it is stable, show net earnings of at least $1,000,000 the preceding year, have at least 1,500 stockholders. But there is a back door to a listing that has been much easier to slip through. Unlisted companies have bought up the corporate shell of a firm listed on the exchange, thus picked up the listing with no trouble. In other cases companies have sold out everything but the listing, then gone into a different field under a new name. Last week the exchange's Board of Governors bolted this back door. Henceforth...
...Clinton T. Nash, peacetime stockbroker and wartime executive officer of the Public Relations Section of ComFleets command, his job, his staff, and the tropical island of Tulura constitute the hub of the naval universe. On his desk rests a three-inch shell casing full of paper clips, and a sextant which he tries in vain to sight; over it hangs the sign, "Think Big!" Nicknamed "Marblehead" because he lacks more than hair, Nash affects British knee-length shorts, carries a swagger stick, and talks a strange mixture of adman and old salt ("My hatch is open for ideas...