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...push-button extremists, no longer a competitive pursuit by Army, Navy and Air Forces of a will-o'-the-wisp, a research program has been coordinated under a civilian-dominated Joint Research & Development Board. By mid-1949 the board expects to have a working model of a supersonic, target-seeking antiaircraft missile (see SCIENCE), the first line of passive defense against rocket assault. Sometime after 1952 it hopes to have the ultimate in destructiveness: a supersonic missile which can be guided under full control to a target 3,000 to 5,000 miles away...
...Next day Bob Taft fired back: "Every policy of his Administration has increased prices." Clearly, both were against high prices. Just as clearly, Truman had picked Taft for his campaign target. As Franklin Roosevelt had always campaigned against Herbert Hoover, no matter who the Republican candidate was, Harry Truman meant to run against Bob Taft in 1948, whoever the Republican candidate might...
...tommy-like target rifle works on the principle of the slingshot. It shoots BB-sized ball-bearing pellets, carefully machined so that they will fly straight. The propellant is a thick rubber band inside the barrel. The gun is cocked by stretching the band taut with a metal piece containing the pellet, which slides inside the barrel. The trigger releases the slide which snaps out the pellet...
...rifle, which has a peep sight and range and windage adjustments, is so accurate that a reasonably good shot can hit a thumbnail-sized target at 30 feet. Yet the pellet travels slowly enough to be dangerous only to eyes...
...possible use in training. One Marine Corps base has already ordered some to sell in its post exchange. In his small two-story, ivy-covered plant at Cranston, R.I., Johnson has already turned out 10,000 rifles for sale in toy and gun stores. Retail price: $15. With the target rifle he hopes that his company, which has been losing money since the end of the war, will hit the black...