Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alarmed by reports that the Administration is yielding to pleas from Britain to ease East-West trade restrictions, the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee opened hearings on the current state of trade with the Communist bloc. In its line of questioning, the subcommittee made plain that its target will be Presidential Assistant Harold Stassen, who, as director of the Foreign Operations Administration, approved a general relaxation of controls...
...least one big U.S. industry. Merged C.I.O.-A.F.L. has its sights set on the high-flying aircraft industry, thinks that it is in a good position (order backlogs of $13.2 billion, 1955 profits of $500 million) to give 180,000 plane workers new benefits this spring. First target: Convair, whose contract "expires March 31. Asking price: a 35-hour week plus a 10% wage increase...
...Underdog's Day. The main target of both Stevenson and Kefauver, however, was the annual convention of the California Democratic Council at Fresno at week's end. The council, made up of 450 Democratic clubs all over the state, is the most important Democratic organization in California. An overwhelming majority of the 3,000 delegates and alternates was believed to be for Stevenson. His strategists had even urged the powers in the council not to endorse Stevenson publicly, because they feared that would only add fuel to Kefauver's "boss" charge...
...late Mahatma Gandhi, saw the light: the solution to India's problems was land redistribution. Thereupon, Bhave set out with a few of his own disciples to persuade India's landowners to give away portions of their land (TIME, May 11, 1953). Bhave's target was 50 million acres (one-sixth of India's cultivated land) for 50 million landless laborers, and his appeal was spiritual; he asked landlords to treat him as their "fifth son." Last week, having walked more than 10,000 miles, prayed and pleaded his cause in seven Indian states, Holy...
...Target Practice. In Nanaimo. B.C., Kathleen Pojee was fined $12.50 for speeding after she twice slammed her car into a police cruiser that flagged her down, explained to the cops that she had mistaken their car for one driven by her husband...