Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this misadventure is "loft-bombing," which uses the speed of the airplane to make the bomb behave like an artillery shell. The airplane is equipped with a "black box" of gyros and electronics named LABS (Low Altitude Bombing System), manufactured by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. The plane approaches the target flying as low as possible to keep below the enemy's radar. The atom bomb under its belly has been set to explode in the desired manner, at a predetermined altitude, or after actually penetrating the ground. The LABS apparatus has been cranked full of information, and the pilot...
Fire Control. In Petersburg, Va., daily target practice was ordered by Police Chief W. E. Traylor after two detectives, hidden in an often-robbed restaurant, watched two gunmen escape after a battle in which 21 shots were fired...
...Priority Target. Bochumer Verein has never claimed that it is the largest, or even among the largest of German steel companies. It ranks No. 9. What it does claim is "mass quality" and inventive ingenuity, for B.V. engineers have found ingenious ways to compound 350 kinds of steel alloys, mass-produce delicate spring steel for watches, wafer-thin sheet steel for razor blades, high-quality steel for turbines and locomotive wheels...
Because of its quality production, Bochumer Verein was a top priority target in World War II when thousands of bombs and incendiaries exploded on its roofs, cutting productive capacity by 60% and its payroll from 24,000 to 4,280 workers. At the end of the war, recovery was slow, did not really get started until 1951, when Allied dismantling was halted and an investment of $3.6 million in Marshall Plan money attracted $10 million of German capital...
Died. Samuel McPherson ("Golf Bag") Hunt, 55, legendary disciplinarian for Al Capone, who scorned the traditional violin case, jolted fashion-conscious Chicago colleagues by carrying his submachine gun where his mashie should have been (and reputedly dubbed his first shot, whose target survived to be known as "Sam Hunt's Hole in One"), was arrested for many Chicago murders, convicted for none during Prohibition years and the decade following, later became the man to see in Chicago bookmaking; of heart disease and pneumonia; in Schenectady...