Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...112th day of the great airlift, while Russian artillery continued firing into the grey skies near Berlin by way of "target practice," the Western powers had an announcement for Berlin's people. The airlift was doing so well that Western Berlin's food rations would be boosted about 15%, from an average of 1,800 to 2,040 calories a day. That meant more cereal, fat, sugar, and-for the first time since war's end-cheese...
...assaults from within and without the un-American fortress failed to curb the spirits of Dies or J. Parnell Thomas. While Dies took on the brunt of the opposition, Thomas counter-attacked vigorously. His main target was the Administration. In 1939, he urged Wall Street brokers to lobby for their own interests in Washington, against the "radical" and "subversive" groups in the country. For Thomas, those two adjectives were firmly welded together. Later, he said the New Deal was in a "hand-in-glove" conspiracy with he Communist Party, and that "the fifth column in the United States has flourished...
...Labor vote is the target for Committee for Wallace teams to be organized at 4 p.m. this afternoon in Kirkland Junior Common Room...
Amiably enough piloted from act to act by Tom Ewell (John Loves Mary), Small Wonder is most pepped up by the singing, spoofing and sass of attractive young Mary McCarty (Sleepy Hollow). With only one unhackneyed satirical target, the show has a sharp eye for such riddled ones as movie endings, magazine ads, the Jazz Age. The fresh gag is Ballad for Billionaires (music by Albert Selden, lyrics by Billings Brown). Sample...
...best talent, with the exception of Vice Presidential Candidate Glen Taylor, was on hand. For three hours before Wallace appeared, they had exhorted and entertained the crowd. New York's Communist-minded Congressman Vito Marcantonio went through his forensic routine, stamping his foot, convulsively clawing the air. His target was New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, whom he attacked as "FlipFlop Willie" because the mayor, having once praised the American Labor Party, now called it Communist...