Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeated German denials, all intelligence reports agreed that Adolf Hitler was planning to move somewhere, soon and suddenly, in the West. Logic for his striking through The Netherlands was compelling. With the Belgian border fortified against him almost as strongly as the French, the Dutch dike was his weakest target. His objective would not necessarily be the turning of the Allied flank but acquisition of bases for planes and submarines much closer to Great Britain than his present bases, for intensified warfare upon British shipping and the supply line of the British Expeditionary Force in France. With some 200 miles...
...With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner implies as great a knowledge of what the public will laugh at as of how to keep it laughing. Kaufman beat all his rivals at comedy and satire because what really concerned him was never the nature of the target, but only the location of the bull...
...submarine resting on the bottom can fire a torpedo in any direction it likes, and the course of torpedoes can be further directed by means of gyroscopes in their tails. The target's course and position can be calculated from, hydrophones. But warships have hydrophones too, and the British claim they can detect a submarine's position even when her motors are not running. Why Royal Oak or her escort failed to do so was another question. Evidently somebody blundered...
...throw over four pounds of steel and high explosive for every pound the enemy can deliver back. British instructors are beginning to teach their infantry not to dress right in ordinary drill because that makes them tend to line up on the battlefield-offering a much better target for machine gunners...
Senator Pittman's Isolationist foes were annoyed at the isolationism of the Pittman bill. But they found one good target-the fact that the bill was credit-and-carry, not cash-and-carry. They shouted that this would modify the Johnson Act, one of the most sacred of U. S. cows, which bars loans to any government still in default on its World War I debts. But Key Pittman, a wily strategist, knew that in winning a political fight you must ask for twice what you can get, then compromise for half (TIME, Oct. 2); and that the loser...