Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans for a new traffic box in the Square have been under way for several months. The old wooden box outside the Coop, with its small windows and poor location, cannot handle Square traffic. It has also been a frequent target for hit-and-run drivers...
Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, who has been bombarding Columnist Drew Pearson, last week thought he had finally zeroed in on his target. In Pearson's column of Dec. 30 in the Washington Post, said McCarthy on the Senate floor, Pearson had quoted, apparently verbatim, four messages to the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Major General Charles Willoughby, General MacArthur's intelligence chief. The messages gave exact figures on the strength of Chinese troops in Korea, and, wrote Pearson, the figures were much smaller than those publicly released by MacArthur. Charged McCarthy: an enemy who had both...
...famous European bird sanctuary and as a key naval base for Imperial and later Nazi Germany. World War II scared away the birds; at war's end, the British also sent away Helgoland's human population of 1,400, turned Germany's backyard Gibraltar into a target range for Royal Air Force and U.S. Air Force bombers. Every five days or so, bombers out on target practice pounded the island's remains to smithereens...
...only as fast as in 1950, the gross national product will reach an estimated $310 billion. By stepping up the work week from 41 to 48 hours, the nation could get a windfall of 1,000,000 more workers, thus produce more goods than in 1950. If the production target was set high enough, American productive genius would do the rest. A summation of that genius had been well stated a quarter-century ago by a rising young politician who counted himself an expert on capitalism. Said...
Besides the radiological reconnaissance teams, says Colonel Wilkinson, each target city should have at least 100 trained men with instruments to detect "personal contamination" (radioactive clothing or skin). There should also be a central laboratory with highly trained personnel for checking instruments and dealing with unforeseen problems...