Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the report: "While it is true that lack of gasoline alone stalled the German war machine . . . there is considerable evidence that, had synthetic oil, rubber and chemicals been considered as a single target group, the same results could have been achieved more expeditiously...
Lewis' chief target: "liberal" theologians who attempt to combine skepticism with faith. Said Lewis of his own conversion: "I want to be left alone, to feel I'm my own master: but since the facts seemed just the opposite, I had to give...
Each representative will have ten minutes in which to state his position, after which the whole panel will be the target for questions from the floor...
...military planners had their own interservice wranglings. The Navy wanted the target ships in open formation; the Air Forces wanted a closed formation to increase the destruction. But against the concerted civilian assault, the services formed a solid front-despite all obstacles, the tests should go ahead on schedule. A delay of only a few weeks might force postponement until next year, because of unpredictable weather conditions in the Marshalls after July. The test might never come off-further postponement could always be urged on the ground of bigger bombs or better instruments just around the corner...
...known as the "electronic numerical integrator and computer." Its inventors-Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert-called it "eniac." For their blue-ribbon audience, they demonstrated how eniac could compute the trajectory of a shell in less time than it would take the shell to reach its target. Thus, in a trice, eniac showed its superiority over all its predecessors...