Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this record to shoot at, agronomists, farm journalists and Fair officials unanimously predicted that this year's Fair business would knock the spots off last year's. The Corn Belt Farm Dailies glowed with rays of "business sunshine." thanked God for good weather, the Government for good prices. These two factors were responsible for a grain crop up 80% over drought-stricken 1934, for cattle which, fattened on sweet lush grass, were selling $2 per cwt. higher in Chicago than a year ago. In Editor & Publisher, which issued a special supplement full of good farm news. Secretary of Agriculture...
Returning with this good news to the famished Ruala, the party was attacked by raiders in three automobiles from yet another hostile tribe. Modern Arabian raiders travel in big cars, shoot high-powered rifles and race off like satanic hit-&-run drivers in a motorist's nightmare. Although the Ruala ambassadors killed the crews of the raiding automobiles, Faris was terribly wounded with two bullets in his breast. Carl Raswan wanted to take him to Damascus to a French surgeon, but the dying man demanded to be taken directly to Tuema. They were married the next night...
...Major event of the Grand American Trapshoot, official name for the whole program of events at Vandalia, is the Grand American Handicap, in which anyone with a registered handicap may enter to shoot from a line measured off from the traps at a distance corresponding to his rating. The Grand American has never been won twice by the same shooter, rarely by a shooter of national reputation. Last week's was no exception...
Hiestand broke 96 birds, enough to win in some years but only good enough last week to put him in a tie for third place, which he won after a shoot-off. Winner was a 51 -year-old Seabord Air Line Railway conductor from Tallahassee, Fla., named Jordan B. Royall. No novice, Royall has been shooting for nine years, has been a Florida champion for four of the last five. Nonetheless, partly because he had never entered the Grand American before, few shooters at Vandalia knew who he was until, firing from 20 yd., he broke 98 targets...
...House Ways & Means Committee spent six days listening to the "public" on Franklin Roosevelt's share-the-wealth tax proposals, heard little of interest because witnesses had nothing concrete to shoot at. Last week the Senate Finance Committee wound up a seven-day hearing on the same subject which, in addition to the stereotyped objections of tax experts, economists and special pleaders, produced the following noteworthy testimony...