Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week that all during the Japanese siege of Shanghai, defending Chinese troops complained that her planes rarely ventured to bomb the Japanese in daylight, bombed them only ineffectively at night, failed to sink or score a direct hit on the Japanese flagship Idzumo which lay anchored a fair target in the Whangpoo, week after week...
They also found that often when the stroke comes from above, the presence of the charge in the air creates by induction an opposite charge in the target, and before the leader completes its course the target may emit upward streamers to meet the leader and guide it home...
...Chief target of anti-Japanese boycotts is raw silk, which makes up over half of Japan's exports to the U. S., and supplies 92% of the silk used here. Recently Manhattan boycotters staged an "anti-silk parade" and last week students from 150 universities danced in the snow around a bonfire on the Vassar College campus feeding silk stockings and ties to the flames...
Under the bill a central organization is to be established in the Home Office to plan for evacuation of "target cities," such as London. With the co-operation of local authorities in the vulnerable cities, camp grounds will be laid out in the open country; food, water and sanitation arranged; facilities for transporting the civilian population set up. During the first & second readings tax-burdened local governments protested hotly that it was "unfair" to saddle them with the maintenance of civilians evacuated from other areas. To quiet these complaints Home Secretary Sir Samuel boosted the proportionate share to be paid...
...newest set-up at Berkeley, which has been operating for two months and which Dr. Lawrence described this week in Rochester, has a vacuum tank 37 in. across, hurls deuterons at 7,800,000 volts. If these are directed into a beryllium target, the beryllium belches out at least one trillion neutrons per second, possibly ten trillion...