Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organized labor's main target was General Electric's ex-President Wilson. The bosses denounced Wilson for his "arrogant seizure of control over manpower," for "his equally arrogant refusal" to listen to labor's pleas. They wanted manpower controls under their always accommodating friend, Labor Secretary Tobin. They charged that no American "may feel safe that the big business clique in control of the [Office of Defense Mobilization] may not suddenly seek to achieve a compulsory draft of the nation's workers...
...vehicle, it has a speed of better than 40 m.p.h., an air-cooled engine with an automatic torque converter transmission, is maneuvered by a simple control stick. Its high-velocity 76-mm. gun packs a lethal punch, and is fitted to a gyroscopic sight which keeps the gun on target over the sharpest bumps. Weighing only 25.8 tons, it can be transported by air, is already in limited production at the Army's Cleveland plant. At Aberdeen last week, Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins officially christened the T-41 the "Walker Bulldog," in honor of the late General...
...proud Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders took Hill 282, tried to hold on against severe Red fire. When ammunition ran low, the officer in command, Major Kenneth Muir, moved among his men, cheering them on. U.S. planes flew over to lend a hand. But the air strike was short of the target, fell instead on Muir's men. When it was over, only 30 effectives remained. The demoralized men withdrew down the hillside. Then, undaunted Major Muir said: "I'll take them up again, and this time we'll stay...
Billy Budd (adapted from Herman Melville's story by Louis O. Coxe & Robert Chapman; produced by Chandler Cowles & Anthony B. Farrell) is a brave shot at a difficult target. On its own terms the sea story that constitutes Herman Melville's valedictory to life is certainly great enough. But to recast it for the theater means tackling a subject far deeper than the sea, grappling with a far-from-well-told story. It means handling utterance that now soars on wings, now walks on stilts. It means working with characters that are essentially black & white, must not become...
...Army unit was the primary target of the report since Navy and Air Force budgets are smaller and less flexible at present...