Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle of the Coral Sea (TIME, May 18), the enemy had been scattered and turned back as he tried to cut the communications lines of the South Pacific. At Midway the threat had been greater. Apparently Midway was to have been a way station. Pearl Harbor was the goal, and disastrous defeat of the U.S. in the Pacific was inevitable if Pearl Harbor was taken...
Wheeler has feuded since 1938 with his colleague, New-Dealing Senator James E. Murray. Wheeler's 1942 goal is to beat Murray by any means at hand...
...boosted deliveries to a walloping 731,900 deadweight tons in June, five times what they were a year ago and 15% above the 632,000-ton May record. This was the first time U.S. shipbuilders had ever passed one-twelfth of this year's 8,000,000-ton goal...
...Enough? As the bill finally left the committee, it was, by the Treasury's computation, $2.7 billion short of the Treasury's $8.7 billion goal. At the last minute the committee-with Presidential permission-reversed itself, killed mandatory joint returns, thus sliced away an estimated $430,000,000 in revenue...
...Goal: to supply 20,000 reservists to the Navy, 6,500 instructors, an unspecified number of glider and liaison pilots to the Army. But the overmastering, overall fact about the U.S. airplane program is that the U.S. is woefully short of pilots-measured against planes-and will be woefully short for months to come...