Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shooting party" in Boston's Algonquin club last week, Host Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr., president of Johnson Automatics, Inc., introduced his latest "weapon"-an indoor target gun. With it, big (6 ft. 4 in.), handsome Mel Johnson, inventor of the Johnson semi-automatic rifle and machine gun, hopes to bring the rifle range into every home...
...Industrial Charter opposed Socialist nationalization in principle, but was cagily diffident when it came down to cases. It agreed that coal and the Bank of England should remain nationalized; only on iron and steel was it flatly opposed to Government ownership. On controls, the main Tory target for many months, it was surprisingly cautious: "Some controls will have to be continued until abundance overtakes scarcity...
...Army Air Forces tried to impress the people of the Eastern Seaboard last week by flying 135 World War II Superfortresses over their heads. The main target of a simulated bombing attack was New York City, which only 101 bombers reached. One squadron had to be diverted to Florida after it ran into storms over Arkansas. To the disgust of General George C. Kenney, boss of the Strategic Air Command, one squadron reached New York 20 minutes late...
Princeton's Christian Gauss, 69, who started out to be a poet and ended as a famed, judiciously quizzical dean, emerged from retirement last week to wing a few cloth-yard shafts at the target of U.S. education. The onlookers at Princeton-about 75 secondary-schoolmen -had to admit that he hit the target with some smacking bull's-eyes. Said Dean Gauss...
...practice) against anybody who threatened his exclusive leadership. One of his victims was Wilhelm Weitling, a tailor's apprentice, one of the few proletarians who has ever become an intelligent Communist leader. Marx falsely accused Weitling of being a literary crook and hounded him to the U.S. Another target was Ferdinand Lassalle, brilliant founder of the German Social Democratic Party. Marx somewhat inconsistently referred to Lassalle as "Baron Izzy" and "the little Jew." Another victim was Michael Bakunin, an ardent Russian anarchist who threatened Marx's, control of the First International (founded in 1864 in London). Marx charged...