Word: target
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England Power and Edison Electric Illuminating Co., a utility company serving Boston and 37 other cities and towns, reaching 1,265,000 individual consumers. Through this pool, the new Edison-New England Power combine ranks as one of the chief links of the intricately chained U.S. utilities "trusts," target of many a bitter political attack. And the controlling force of the combine, International Paper, will own power developments of 1,500,000 h.p., capable of being increased to 3,000,Gigantic as this combine appears, International Paper considered, last week, yet another merger of giant proportions. To the already great...
...great Stefan Raditch, uncle of Paul, and Leader of the Opposition, was the assassin's primary target but received only a bullet wound in the stomach from which he was said, last week, to be "rapidly recovering...
...your issue of May 28, col. 1, p. 12, you say, "Steunenberg was the target for the miners' rage; in 1906 he was the target for a bullet that killed him." The facts are that a bomb was placed at the gate opening into the lawn of the Governor's home in Caldwell. When the Governor opened the gate he was literally blown up. Harry Orchard confessed to having placed the bomb and was sentenced to prison for life...
...facts briefly were these. In the bloody guerilla battling that followed the Coeur d'Alene trouble, Governor Steunenberg of Idaho had called out the state militia, who, using unquestionably brutal means had succeeded in beating down the equally murderous members of the Federation. Steunenberg was the target for the miners' rage; in 1906 he was the target for a bullet that killed him. Haywood with two others was held for the murder; the news of the trial filled the press and three names filled the news. Most of all, Haywood, the thick-lipped, scarfaced, foul-mouthed friend...
George V, King & Emperor, cried last week, "I hit it!" His Majesty had just fired, during maneuvers of the Royal Tank Corps, a three pounder tank gun and the projectile had sped true to the bull's eye of the target. As everyone knows, George V rates as one of the half dozen best sporting shots in England...