Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...separate air force of their own for the first time. Pilots and crews of the Eighteenth will train and work hand in glove with the Sand Airborne Division at nearby Fort Bragg, N.C. on the highly complex problems of airloading men and equipment and dropping them on a pinpoint target on split-second schedules...
Organized labor's walkout from the defense mobilization agencies set off cries and counter-cries, conferences, viewings-with-alarm and fevered gesticulation all through the week. But Big Labor stubbornly stood fast. Its chief target, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, remained firm. Amid the noise and confusion, the rift over the administration of national mobilization seemed, if anything, to widen...
...Kefauver's major target is the racing wire. He is considering legislation to prohibit the interstate transmission of racing information other than results and the interstate transmission of bets by wire. He wants to give the Internal Revenue agents special power (or the gumption) to deal with Big Crimesters' calculatedly vague accounting...
Unlike the radar bombsight, which has to "see" its target by means of radar waves, Shoran (Short Range Air Navigation) can put bombs on a target that has not been seen at all. It needs nothing but an accurate map with the target marked. Last week the Air Force announced that it has begun to use Shoran in Korea...
...darkness or clouds, the crew figures out how the Shoran instruments should read when the airplane reaches the bomb release point just short of the target. They set some dials. A computing mechanism that takes account of wind drift, altitude, etc. helps them reach the selected point. A red light flashes, and the bombardier drops the bombs...