Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goodwill. At a press conference the week before. President Roosevelt's target had been corporation gifts to charity. What right had corporations, he demanded, to buy goodwill by giving away their stockholders' money? In wide circulation last week was the following response by Preston S. Arkwright, president of Georgia Power...
...difficult to identify a body with its whole face bashed in or torn off. . . . The driver is death's favorite target. If the steering wheel holds together it ruptures his liver or spleen so he bleeds to death internally. Or. if the steering wheel breaks off. the matter is settled instantly by the steering column's plunging through his abdomen...
Meanwhile the guilder had been a target for bear raiders all week, plunged one day fully 1? off parity, as the Bank of The Netherlands raised its discount rate from 3% to 5% to 6%, and grimly paid out 1/9 of its gold reserves to Dutchmen who are perfectly at liberty to hoard. The week closed with the guilder still 84.8% backed by gold...
...into line, got filling stations exempted. While Sacramento stewed in summer heat, ice companies won exemption. To Sacramento went a handsome young proprietress of a beauty shop chain: stores selling wares "incidental to personal service" were exempted. That probably let out the dental parlor chain of "Painless Parker." Chief target remained the 1,274 stores of food chains, Safeway, Piggly Wiggly, Mac Marr, Pay'n Takit, but also hit were such chains as Woolworth, Kress, Newberry, Penney, Walgreen. The State Senate thumped the bill through 34-to-4. Then California shook as with an earthquake. Radio, billboard and newspaper...
...behind, the floating grandstands were signaled not to follow, and His Majesty led the fleet to sea in war formation, flying from his yacht a signal meaning "THE ENEMY IS IN SIGHT." No enemy was ever sighted, but the big guns pounded away at H. M. S. Centurion, a target ship controlled by radio. Of 320 "dead" shells fired at the Centurion, 56 hit the mark. Last of the maneuvers was the one stunt feature of this month's air, land and sea reviews. The King, who despises stunts, barely consented to watch a new-fangled gadget called...