Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockies under a gasoline flatcar. He once traveled 2,000 miles to defend Mark Zarkovitch, former private in his company, accused of killing a man in a knife fight in Jasper National Park. The Speaker of Canada's House looked at the rabbits, pulled a .22 calibre target pistol from his desk, stalked them cannily 'round the Houses of Parliament, killed six, returned to preside at a session...
...three years Herbert Hoover has been President of the United States. During that time he has been the target for every American who is suffering from the present depression and in characteristic fashion wishes to place responsibility on the powers that be, and particularly on the President. During that time Herbert Hoover has faced greater problems than any peace-time President has ever had to face before. Not a day has passed that he has not devoted all of his waking hours in an attempt to solve those problems. He has never lost patience and never lost courage, and never...
Chinese Retreat. Battered and bombed for over a month, China's antiquated Woosung Forts (16 miles from Shanghai) became one day last week the target for nine Japanese warships, scores of Japanese field pieces and dozens of Japanese bombing planes. A continuous bombardment and bombing was kept up until all Chinese holding the forts were extinct...
Last week the Senate raised its great blunderbuss of investigation and prepared to fire a $50,000 broadside upon the buying and selling practices of all U. S. stock exchanges. Broad though the range of the inquiry was, most Senators realized that its real target was short sales on the New York Stock Exchange. From President Hoover down, many a U. S. citizen has long believed that such sales maliciously depress the market, add to hard times...
...bank. ¶ Near Fort Wayne, Ind. a farmer hid $250 in an old bureau drawer. Rats chewed the bills to bits so small that banks refused to redeem the trash. ¶ At Los Angeles a 10-year-old boy found a tin can, used it as a target for rifle practice. Out of the can his father extracted eleven $1,000 bills, perforated with bullet holes. A broker accepted the currency in payment for securities...