Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next Tory target was the throne speech, the government's statement of policy. The speech hinted at tax cuts, promised bigger baby bonuses for large families and a royal commission to study national cultural development...
...Department of Justice last week fired its antitrust guns at the biggest target of all. In a federal district court in Newark, N.J., it charged American Telephone & Telegraph Co., biggest U.S. industrial corporation (gauged by its $5 billion in assets) and its manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric Co., Inc., with "conspiracy to monopolize" the U.S. telephone business. The Government's attack, in preparation for more than a year, was no surprise. But not even A.T. & T. expected such a blanket barrage...
...knows," exploded a member of the London County Council, "why we ever took it on in the first place. The blasted thing's been a target ever since." The blasted thing was London's gleaming statue of Eros, God of Love. Time after time, on nights of revelry in Piccadilly Circus, while lovers ogled each other beneath Eros' outstretched wings, the fire brigade has had to remove hats from the god's wreathed head or frilly unmentionables from his poised limbs...
Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalists were in no mood to heed Epstein's protests. They were hard at work on their grand design to oust non-Europeans from any participation in South Africa's government (TIME, Oct. 25). The latest target of their campaign was the Natives' Representative Council, which had been set up in 1936 to assist Parliament in making laws affecting Negroes. Its six government-appointed white members and 16 Negroes (twelve of them elected) formed a purely advisory body. "The N.R.C.," one of its members once said, "is like a toy telephone...
...barbs of its critics (TIME, Sept. 6 et seq.) with hardly a whimper. Last week, during an intermission of a nationally broadcast performance (and a good one) of The Marriage of Figaro, Met Board Chairman George A. Sloan finally started hurling the barbs back. Some fell in the target area; a few made bull's-eyes...