Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What will guide the guided missile? Radio waves are dangerous. The enemy also has radios; he might suborn the brainless invader into a rightabout turn. "Homing" devices, attracted by some quality of the target, are dangerous if used prematurely. The missile, perhaps confused by the enemy, might "home" on a friendly city. The earth's magnetic field is a poor guide. It varies erratically, and a subtle enemy might bemuse the missile with false-face magnetism. What is needed for a really effective guided missile is a foolproof steering device that the enemy cannot influence...
...Target: A 2,000,000-man military establishment (up 600,000-by a draft and enlistments-from present strength...
...Communists are noisier than numerous. And they prefer, whenever possible, to have the shouting done for them by others and thus seem not only more respectable but larger than life. In Washington last week they gave a demonstration of this technique. Their target was the Mundt-Nixon bill...
...Poorhouse. It was not the whole score. Against such successes, other continuing dilemmas stood out. Japanese industry had recovered to 40% of the 19307 34 level. For example, the great Yawata steel plant (a favorite wartime target of U.S. bombers from China) was producing again-62,000 tons of ingots and rolled steel in April; but this was only one-seventh of 1941's peak production rate...
...Louis, 38 top-ranking Episcopalians took their church's official leadership to task for obstructing church unity rather than promoting it. Target of the document was a "Statement of Faith & Order" recently prepared by the Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity. Their chief complaint: the commission's statement does nothing to clear up the church's ancient ambiguity on the subject of the "historic episcopate," Episcopalian equivalent of the Roman Catholic doctrine of Apostolic Succession (an unbroken line of bishops consecrated by bishops traced directly back to St. Peter...