Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news reached the cruiser Rochester, oldest U. S. fighting ship (TIME, Sept. 1) and flag-bearer of the Special Service (Caribbean) Squadron, at Corinto, Nicaragua. Lying at Philadelphia and Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty-five submarines, snuggled like schools of fish into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and New London, Conn., learned they were to be shelved or scrapped. Two headquarters of the mine force heard they were...
Recognizing that the Earl belonged first to Law, Margaret Countess of Birkenhead and her children stood aside. "He was a truly wonderful man," said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, often target of the Earl's most scathing shafts. "To disagree with Lord Birkenhead in no way diminished the extraordinary respect which one had to pay to his powers...
...just as captivating of interest and enthusiasm. At the tournament several records were broken, notably the world's long-distance flight record with a yew bow. The Rev. L. L. Dailey, of Monmouth, Ore. shot an arrow 14 yards short of a quarter mile. Present U. S. Target Champion is Russell Hoogerhyde, 24, who set a tournament record score in the American Round-30 arrows each at 60, 50 and 40 yards...
Mexico. In the course of air maneuvers from Mexico's famed Valbuena Airport last week, a cardboard village was erected as a target for bombers. Mexican aviators mistook the town of Ixtapalapa for the target, blew up the ranch "El Arenal," the Ixtapalapa Light and Power Co., killed one, wounded...
...Portland, Ore.: an individual field pistol match at Camp Perry, Ohio, with a score of 49 out of 50. The other finalist, Andrew Ford of the Royal Northwest Mounted, had the same score, but was judged less able because when it came to shooting a man-shaped moving target he did not get his man as well as Shaylor...