Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles away, Atomic Energy Commission scientists got ready to turn on the remote-control firing apparatus. Then, at 8:30 one morning this week, the first atomic artillery shell ever fired whished from Amazon Annie's 280-mm. (11 in.) barrel and hurtled on its way. Above the target area, an atomic fireball blossomed, then a purplish cloud, that whitened as it rose swiftly into...
When a U.S. educator thinks of raising money, his first target is a U.S. corporation. But do corporations have the legal right to give away their stockholders' money? Last week, in a suit brought by a group of stockholders against A. P. Smith Manufacturing Co. (valves and fire hydrants) over a $1,500 gift to Princeton, a New Jersey court answered...
...porkchoppers" (unionese for bureaucrats) for the all-out campaign. C.I.O. Boss Walter Reuther thinks that the recent practice of going after small companies first, in trying to organize an industry, is wrong. He aims to hit the big ones and expects the little ones to fall in line. Prime target: the chemical industry, and specifically, Du Pont, in which 75% of the employees belong to independent (company) unions...
...Teachers Union, which has been opposing loyalty oaths and inquiries into the beliefs, opinions and associations of teachers for several years, has consistently maintained that the student is the ultimate victim of repressions directed against teachers. Events have borne out our warnings that the target cannot be limited--even if that were desirable--to alleged Communists, but that once launched the witchhunt had a logic of its own and ends by engulfing the freedom of all. We are not happy merely at having been proved right, but we are glad that others are seeing the truth of our admonitions...
Homer Earl Capehart, the onetime phonograph maker from Indianapolis, was for years a target for the bitter sneers of liberals and laborites from both major parties. Last week the old critics were cheering Homer Capehart while ranged against him were such old-time friends as the National Association of Manufacturers and Robert Alphonso Taft. The issue, that brought about this strange shift of forces: Republican Senator Capehart's bill to provide standby controls on prices, wages and rents...