Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Griffin named no further names but instead stated, "Because so many of its graduates reach positions of great trust and power in the government. Harvard is the target of Communist infiltration schemes, among both faculty and students...
...booming factories were turning out all the goods Europe could use and more; the problem now was to sell the excess where it would earn dollars - that is, in the U.S. market. That meant that the U.S. would have to accept more imports, said Hoffman. ECA's target was modest - an increase in imports of "several hundred million dollars " within the next two years, amounting to only a drop in the bucket of U.S. production. But it would be enough, Hoffman conceded, to "create problems in a few localities - competition always does...
...following two days the party's left wing was-comparatively speaking-as sweet as pie. Paul Robeson busied himself with nothing more provocative than singing 01' Man River. Manhattan's leftist firebrand, Congressman Vito Marcantonio, emitted a few wild yips, but concentrated on a routine target-Harry Truman, whom he described as a "little alderman in a big house...
...things look now, ERP aid may have to work on ten years past its original target date of 1952. Trade barriers and ineffective propaganda can slow things up even more. But M. Le Gay points out that "ERP has kept us our democracy--as long as things stay good, communism won't have a chance." We should prepare to face year after year of paying out, if we want to keep things good...
...road in the Northwest by which an aggressor force or a defending Allied army could travel. At night, troops had to leave the road to bivouac in the bush in their nylon tents and down-filled sleeping bags. But most of the transport was roadbound, an easy target for air attack...