Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...titan promptly got down to business. The first objective was to get ready for negotiations next March, when contracts expire for most of its 225,000 operators, linemen, technicians and maintenance men. As a whopping independent union-second only to the Railway Brotherhoods-N.F.T.W. felt strong enough to shoot for the works: union shop, dues checkoff, "substantial" wage boosts...
Ocean, but the field of rocket fire would stretch south to the protected seaways of Good Hope, north to the Middle Eastern land bridge uniting three continents. Britain (or Suez) could be saturated overnight by enemy rockets; huge Africa could absorb thousands, and still shoot back. In those green hills far away, Britain (and the U.S.) could, if the worst came, crouch defensively, have time and room to launch an atomic roundhouse...
...People," he says. "I like to work with people." Enough people with something to do or say about the Village shoot in and out of his office in the administration building (which still looks exactly like an Army administration building) every day to make happy the most gregarious person this side of a subway crush. To Mr. Taft belong all the problems of the Village. He is, if not the mayor, most certainly the town father...
...West Coast, where earnest protestations of purity bloom all year round, U.C.L.A. had come up with a fabulously strong team. Down in Texas, where they shoot folks for even hinting at subsidization, Texas U. had a team that might be the best in the land-and, possibly, the glittering exception in 1946's pigskin dollar derby...
...Army does not admit officially that it plans to shoot rockets at the moon. Congress might think it frivolous, though the moon is the handiest gull's-eye for extra-atmospheric target practice. In spite of the Army's reticence, Dr. J. A. Hutcheson, associate director of the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, has heard unofficially that the Army's first moon rocket may be fired in 18 months. This seemed optimistic, considering the difficulties. But last week Dr. Hutcheson was excitedly designing a radio station to be rocketed to the moon, where it would broadcast back to earth...