Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week appeared minded to modify the thoroughly radical temper of European Jocism. Full of zeal against Communism, he seemed less interested in spreading labor unions (of which the Pope and French, and Belgian Jocists are vigorous champions) than in making "immoral" magazines in the U. S. the first target of Jocist artillery...
...main event, the 250-target all-gauge shoot, a comparative oldster of 28, Henry Bourne Joy Jr.. turned in an extraordinary performance-a perfect score of 250, something that had never been done before. Skeeter Joy, son of the late Henry B. Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co. and famed skeet pioneer in the Midwest, lost his right eye in a shooting accident five years ago. now shoots left-handed-and better than ever...
...ultrashort waves do spray beyond the horizon. When they travel far, however, they become as shifty and unaccountable as ricocheting bullets, cannot be relied upon to hit any particular target. Radiomen are appalled at the cost of setting up a network of ultra-short-wave stations, piping programs from station to station by cable or ordinary short-range radio-relay links. Last week was announced the invention by RCA's Inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of a system designed to eliminate such costly cables...
...Last spring, with the potent help of a White House message, he persuaded Congress to meet the principal deficiency -in anti-aircraft equipment. In Malin Craig's last year the army is spending or allotting $23,000,000 for 230 modern, mobile anti-aircraft guns, with supplementary searchlights, target detectors, etc. etc. Another $30,000,000, he says, will give the U. S. enough anti-aircraft equipment for immediate requirements. Likewise, deficiencies in tanks, anti-tank guns, modern artillery, bombs and other ordnance were partly filled by the last Congress and should be pretty well remedied within three years...
Gerald B. Winrod, tract-selling Wichita evangelist whose "intolerance" (TIME, Aug. 1) would have made a splendid target for Democratic Senator George McGill this autumn should Mr. Winrod have been nominated. With two other Republican candidates up for the Senate, about 300,000 Republican votes were cast, or 140,000 more than Kansas Democrats have cast in their hottest Senatorial fights...