Word: target
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great surprise, the United Auto Workers announced that its first strike target will be Ford. The U.A.W. set the deadline for this week, unless a new contract is signed. Ford said it was actually relieved that the showdown was set, promised to sign only the kind of contract that would be fair to its stockholders and customers as well as its workers, "whether it comes before or after the deadline." At week's end Ford said that it would make a new offer to the union...
When the first siren blows, no shelter for me; I want to be right on target...
...heavy Protestant invasion is partly due to the fact that the Far East, long a prime missionary target, has been largely closed by war or Communism for the past two decades. But it is not the only reason. While there are five times as many Catholic priests, nuns and brothers in Latin America as there are Protestant churchmen and women, the Catholics must tend their already established flocks, while Protestants can put more time and money into missionary work. Protestant missionaries supply remote outposts with their own airlines (TIME, Jan. 6), run their own radio networks, gave away free nearly...
...Such a Compulsion." Boats were always Rosy's favorite target, but he did not always have his present preferred status; J. P. Morgan once smashed Rosy's camera with a cane when Rosy tried to sneak a shot of the old yachtsman coming ashore from his famed Corsair. Photographing yachts in all kinds of weather, Rosy has hung by one hand from a halyard and thudded his skull against Foto's deck, but has never gone overboard...
Like a mosquito at dusk, Manhattan Financial Consultant Randolph Phillips, 47, has driven many a big corporation to distraction with his stinging jabs at management control. His favorite target is railroads. Turning on his onetime associate, New York Central Railroad Chairman Robert R. Young, Phillips harried him so persistently through the courts that Young hardly dared go to Manhattan for months before his death because he feared Phillips' summonses. Last week Randy Phillips himself got swatted. He not only lost a court fight over his campaign to win a seat on the Pennsylvania Railroad's board but also...