Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inland Steel, the eighth biggest producer. With a solidly established position in its own market area, Inland could afford to go its own way; furthermore, Inland's Chairman Joseph L. Block is a member of Kennedy's Labor-Management Advisory Committee. So Inland was an obvious target for Administration phone calls. Commerce Under Secretary Edward Gudeman called his longtime friend Philip D. Block, vice chairman of Inland. Labor Secretary Goldberg called his old acquaintance Leigh B. Block, an Inland vice president. The day after Blough's press conference, Inland Steel Co. announced that it had decided...
...bath. Afterward. Kennedy accepted a windbreaker and moved with McNamara to the gusty starboard side of the ship to watch an aerial display. Two Terrier missiles homed in on a drone plane, but missed-although naval officers explained that they would have been close enough to the target if they had been armed with real warheads...
...picture screen set up at an Army Air Forces base in the Libyan desert near Bengasi one baking July day in 1943. The assembled pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners roared their approval. Offscreen an announcer's voice intoned that the assembled airmen were about to strike a virgin target. Its name: Ploesti...
...tack, the Germans had made it into a colossal land battleship. A ring of heavy antiaircraft guns formed a perimeter around the refineries that circled the city; lighter flak guns were concealed in hay stacks and groves, mounted on factories, bridges, water towers and church steeples on the target approaches. Crack Luftwaffe squadrons, aided by Rumanian and Bulgarian air force units, gave Ploesti an aerial umbrella...
Almost from takeoff. Operation Tidal Wave lost the necessary ingredient of surprise ; the Germans had cracked the Allied code and tracked the planes all the way to the target. Over the Mediterranean, the lead Liberator carrying the mission navigator suddenly staggered out of formation and crashed into the ocean. It was a disastrous mishap: hours later the lead wave took a wrong heading just short of the target, and Operation Tidal Wave began to disintegrate into chaos...