Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days last week there were two strikes of more than 450 planes each, one of 600 (on which not a B-29 was lost). By their own admission, the B-29 flyers were running out of industrial targets. Next on the priority list: railroads, hydroelectric plants and port installations. One prime target remains out of even B-29 range: the Jap air force. Since fighter opposition lately has been almost nil, the Japs presumably have withdrawn their remaining planes to the far north, saving them for the invasion...
Scrambling hurriedly to clear its decks for world charter discussion, the Senate was stopped in its tracks last week by an ancient mutineer: the filibustering Southerner. Mississippi's jug-eared, sawed-off Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo held the floor. His target: the Fair Employment Practices Commission. His weapons: racial and religious hatreds...
...antiaircraft rocket capable of exploding within ten yards of a target ten miles in the air.† (Said Lieut. Colonel Keck: the Allies expect that rockets will soon replace all other types of antiaircraft weapons...
...Pont de Nemours Co., Inc., long a favorite target for trust busters, had been indicted nine times in the last three years on antitrust charges. It has been widely pictured as a participant in international cartels ranging from titanium to dyestuffs. Last week's acquittal in Newark's Federal Court cleared the company (along with its board chairman Lammot...
Married. Jinx Falkenburg, 26, alluring camera target whose magazine-cover face & figure sped her up the model-to-movies path (Cover Girl); and A.A.F. Lieut...