Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy. One of the shortcomings of Hell Divers is the fact that spectacle and plot are not well integrated. Parts which are pure spectacle are noisy, informative and magnificently photographed. Best shots: a covey of bombing planes wheeling one by one to dive at a target (shown three times); a plane landing on the deck of the U. S. S. Saratoga as seen by a camera attached to the underpart of the plane; target practice in which airplane gunners fire at three blimps with cameras mounted on their guns. The plot which ties these and similar ups-&-downs together...
...film consists of short shots of target practice, captain's inspection, man overboard drill, and the Halifax tea dance. There is also a showing of the embarking and disembarking of the various units. The whole presentation will take from 20 to 25 minutes...
...advertisement in the New York Sunday Times). When Canada reported a membership of 5,000, Moscow replied that the organization ought to be self-supporting in future and promptly scolded the Canadian comrades "for deficiency in boxing and stone throwing," suggested morning and evening practice with brickbats at a target 25 ft. away. The sergeant explained that his career as a Communist was cut short three years ago, when Tim Buck, president of the party in Canada suspected his sincerity...
...slow-fire at 600 yd., 100 rounds slow-fire at 1,000 yd. Squinting in the glare, 1,727 contestants sooted their sights with candles, tightened their slings, commenced firing at 5:50 a. m. over glistening grass. When the last shot cracked out, split the target, was marked by the pitmen and valued by the statistical officer, the winner became known. He was Lieut. Emerald F. Sloan, 30, of the Infantry Barracks at Vancouver, Wash. Lieut. Sloan, never before a sensation in his two years of national competition, came up from behind to make a score...
When she steams out of Norfolk Navy Yard the Utah, ordered scrapped after the London Naval Conference, will be known officially as a target, will maneuver defensively as an enemy ship...