Word: target
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Department announced tests of anti-aircraft fire against a sausage-shaped target, 10 ft. in diameter, 45 ft. long, towed by the Shenandoah at 33 mi. an hour, more than 4,000 ft. up, and fired at by 3-in. guns from the battleship Texas. Six hundred and thirty-five rounds of shrapnel were fired. The target showed 763 holes, 11 made by unexploded shells...
...Haven, exercises were held by the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps of which one Samuel Moore, 17, is a member. At 8:30 a. m., this Moore began to shoot. The range was 50 ft. The round black centre of the target was no bigger than a nickel. At 3:57 that afternoon, he stopped. During that time, he had scored 1,500 successive bull's-eyes-a world's record...
...will be high explosives, which cause houses to crash, that will apparently supply the chief danger to the cities and towns in the next war. Moreover, to get an effective concentration of gas in cities behind the firing lines, an enormous concentration of aircraft, supplying a highly vulnerable target, would be necessary...
...Target Practice...
...guys know there is a state of Iowa or don't you give a damn*? Personally, I believe that the country would be better off if we took your city, Chicago, Detroit and all the rest of 'em out in the Pacific Ocean and used them for target practice for that fleet that is burning up the "jack" by the thousands and hundreds of thousands each...