Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publicize Los Angeles, its Junior Chamber of Commerce this spring decided on a "national aquatic show." To publicize the aquatic show, Los Angeles Photographer Eyere Powell last week made striking photographs of Swimmer Katherine Rawls diving through the bull's-eye of a large canvas target and U. S. High-diving champion Ruth Jump flying through the air holding a bow & arrow in a "Diana Dive...
Fling a necklace of rough-cut emeralds on a blue tablecloth and you have what Bermuda looks like from an airplane winging southeast from the U. S. 10,000 ft. above the Atlantic. Only 22 miles long, the looped chain of low coral isles seems a tiny target to hit from Manhattan 783 miles away. But at 10,000 ft. a pilot can see 50 miles on a clear day and so can still spot his goal even if he misses 'it by that great a navigational error. Last week, as a Pan American Airways plane soared casually down...
...Port Washington, L. I. at 9:32 a. m., it skirted the coast to Atlantic City, then bored out over the ocean at 10,000 ft. above a fringe of clouds. With a 20-m.p.h. tail wind and guided by a direction finder at Bermuda, it hit its tiny target on the nose 4 hr. 45 min. later, slid to a landing in the azure waters of Hamilton Harbor beside the Imperial Airways base on Darrell's Island...
...years, Republican Boss John Henry Roraback ruled Connecticut. Last week, aged 67, he killed himself. The suicide, with a pistol at his hunting lodge after a morning's target practice, was an act of strong will and not neurosis, and behind it lay a year's sickness (a streptococcus infection). Behind that was the story of a poor country boy who became a public utilities tycoon worth some $10,000,000. Behind that was the story of the electrification of Connecticut, a politico-financial chapter of U. S. history without peer as an illustration of what current historians...
...Favorite target of the insurance critic is the dual role assumed by the life companies. They are banks as well as insurance companies, selling an investment along with protection. Liberal eyebrows are occasionally lifted at the bulging concentration of savings entrusted to a handful of self-perpetuating managements but in general the arguments for the divorce of the insurance and banking functions have little political color...