Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Watch the Snake!" Moments later, McKeon took the occasion for a lecture. "Here's something to remember," he sang out. "When you're in water in combat never go out in the middle. You make a perfect target, especially on a moonlight night. Keep close to the shore. Keep moving or you will bog down." Not everyone heard him; there was too much confusion. Some of the boots tried to joke. One yelled: "Hey, something just swam between my legs!" Another found a short piece of rope and waved it, shouting: "Watch the snake! Watch the snake...
Like subway turnstiles and slot machines, the telephone is a traditional target for those Americans with a yen for outwitting the machine age. Before science developed the foolproof pay phone, nearly every college boy knew how to make it disgorge a tinkling stream of nickels. Last week Illinois Bell Telephone Co. ruefully explained another game that costs it as much as $400,000 annually: the free call, in which by various stratagems thousands of callers in toll booths and at home use the phone company's wires without ever paying a cent. At Bell's urging, the Illinois...
...attract and keep a high-caliber work force. In Colorado, Climax Molybdenum Co. has equipped the inaccessible Rockies settlement of Climax (where it operates the country's largest underground mine) with ski tows, a $31,700 youth center, a $106,000 recreation hall with bowling alleys, library, target range and gymnasium, a $128,000 skating rink and a TV booster to bring in programs from distant stations. Crown Zellerbach Corp., which runs three lumber company towns in Washington and Oregon, concentrates on youth activities, allots timberland tracts to Boy Scout troops, awards college scholarships to company town children...
...Collo, the grim shape of a French cruiser materialized out of the darkness. Even as French children swarmed down to the beach to cheer, Georges Leygues' 8-in. guns swung shoreward and thundered salvo after salvo into the hills behind the town. Minutes later, French planes strafed the target area. Marines swarmed ashore from the cruiser, trucks carrying Senegalese troops roared up the road from Philippeville and swung up into the hills. It was the first combined air-sea-ground operation of the French in Algeria, aimed at the concentration of fellagha bands behind Collo. At operation...
Though Lucy makes no visible mark on any literary target, it has already hit the bull's-eye of high finance. The Hollywood team of Hecht-Lancaster has paid Author Shaw the record prepublication sum of $400,000 for the film rights to his novel with a possible $350,000 more. His publishers are running off a fat initial printing of 50,000 copies, and Lucy seems assured of elbowing her way into top company on current bestseller lists...