Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown in the West, but this will be the first nationwide nose count, extending even to Canada. Over-the-road and other heavy duty truck drivers will come first. Later checks would tap cabbies, milk drivers and other workers in the domain ("everything on wheels") that Beck covets. Major target is the lush crop of unorganized truckers carting perishables from the South...
...relations between Cirrotta and his acquaintances which motivated his selection as target for the unintentionally fatal scuffle...
...Manhattan's League for Less Noise sighted on a new target: the loose manhole covers that go clonk-clonk when cars pass over them...
Nick Beal is a guy who'll double-deal you for a nickel or fifty grand, just so long as it's good and dirty. This time his target is Joseph Foster (Thomas Mitchell), a pious D.A. who is running for Governor. Beal engineers all sorts of deals to get Foster elected, but ruins his reputation as well. And of course Foster has signed away his soul (in writing, very legal), and only saves himself at the last moment by brandishing a Bible in front of Beal's flendish face...
...long-suffering commuters who ride in & out of Manhattan on the dependably undependable Long Island Rail Road, the line is the target of countless bitter jokes-many founded on fact. In their time, the Long Island's trains have been delayed by stray dogs, wet leaves on the tracks, and sea gulls short-circuiting transformers. Its trains sometimes take the wrong switch and "get lost." Last week the comedy was taken to court. The Long Island's officers marched into Brooklyn's Federal Court and declared the road bankrupt, the first U.S. Class 1 railroad...