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...last week, after nine months of training, the 43rd Division was far from being one of the Army's best. The Pentagon had set April 1 as the target date at which the 43rd would be fully trained and ready for combat. But two months more had passed and the division, even by its own reckoning, was still only about 40% combat-ready. And its morale was scraping rockbottom...
Blodgett's produce goes to 400,000 U.S. personnel in the Far East, including those on Okinawa and Guam as well as in Japan and Korea. In 1950 he grew 7,429,382 Ibs. His target for this year: 9,537,000 Ibs., or 56,236,000 servings...
...which sends out impulses to pull on the moving particles and thus speed them up. The top speed reached by particles in the University's machine is about half the speed of light--93,000 miles per second. They travel in an ever-widening circle until they hit the target, an inch square tidbit of metal placed at the outside edge of the cylinder. The atoms in the target burst apart when hit, becoming radioactive in the process. After the bombardment is all over, the target is carried off in a metal can to be studied in electrical, chemical...
...kiosk replaces a jerry-built booth which graced the other side of the Square for over ten years. The original booth was one of the first in the country; it has been a favorite target for passing motorists, and has been demolished twice by large trucks...
This is all to the good, for a year of serious study would show that these bills, are aimed wrong. Their target is supposedly the bevy of real Communists in the Commonwealth, but all that they would bag after a year or so of impassioned shooting would be a large number of patriotic men with unorthodox political views...