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...bombing role. Flourishing figures from World War II, the Navy claimed that attack carriers were not only the best way of bringing air power to bear at sea; as a movable, hit-&-run base, the supercarrier would be able to launch a surprise attack with atom bombs against any target anywhere...
Super-Carrier, Too. Vinson was, in fact, firing without bothering to sight in on the target. Actually no service had much to complain about. Under the committee bill there would...
...well-intentioned idea, but it did not provide The Reporter's reporters with a plain or specific journalistic target, and the first issue showed it. Almost half of the 36-page issue was devoted to a leisurely, dull analysis of President Truman's program for developing the world's backward areas. The rest of the articles ranged from a talk with an Iowa farmer to an essay on the Adamses of Massachusetts. Future issues will also be devoted to one political or economic "symphonic theme," such as civil rights, cotton...
...what look like beaches. But, except for a short time after a rare desert rain, the lake has no water. Its smooth and precisely level surface is cement-hard dark-red mud. Its one surface craft is a weathered wooden dummy battleship, built long ago as a bomber target. Above it, in the bright desert sky, thunder the real craft of Muroc Dry Lake...
...sighting, saves them from such occupational hazards as sunstroke and frostbite. ¶An electronic I.F.F. (identification, friend or foe) device which can be coupled directly with gun-aiming equipment was announced by the National Security Resources Board. In World War II, when an I.F.F. reported that a target was friendly, the message had to be relayed through two or three human elements. The result: at best, delay-at worst, disaster. The improved apparatus now locks a gun so that it cannot be fired when aimed at a plane, ship or tank which I.F.F. indicates is friendly. To get such automatic...