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Speaking before the war-mobilization conference of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, Harris said that "Massachusetts is a vulnerable target area and politicians in other states are doing a better job of securing contracts." According to Harris' speech, delivered before the final session of the two-day conference, the net result was that Massachusetts' industry was losing out in the race for government war-work...
...students crowded about the Ann Arbor dormitory that winter night in 1947 were in a boisterous mood. They had cut off the dormitory's electricity were shouting up at a second-story window and bombarding it with snowballs. Their target: Communist Gerhart Eisler, guest of Michigan Youth for Democratic Action...
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...