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...guns set a light cruiser ablazing. Twenty rounds from her crack batteries were enough to finish a heavy cruiser, blowing up its entire midsection. Other U.S. warcraft and the Salt Lake City joined fire to sink one of the auxiliaries. Then the Salt Lake City returned to her first target, the damaged light cruiser, and pumped more salvos into...
...latest series of reactionary blasts is one-time presidential candidate Alf Landon, whose shallow mind is unable to discriminate between bureaucracy of a Nazi slave state and the government by delegated authority in a social-security democracy. The old-guard Kansas Republican picked Henry A. Wallace as his target. Seldom has there been an attack as malicious, insidious, and completely unconstructive as this short-sighted diatribe directed at a political figure recognized by our Allies, from Left to Right, as the spokesman for the common...
Miss Rand then explained how she had always produced her own balloons before the war. They were so good that the government had been buying them from her to use as target sleeves for gun practice. Being bright red they could be seen easily by gunners...
...lack of knowledge of how to price swarms of new products. But the dangers of relying on fixed-fee contracts, which resemble the cost-plus contracts of World War I, have multiplied in a wastage of both materials and manpower. Recently the Army switched to the so-called "target" system of pricing: a price is first set, then renegotiated in case it is found that the manufacturer is making too much. The Navy has also relied on renegotiation and has thus far obtained refunds and price reductions amounting to $717,000,000, of which about...
...idea: the only way to escape anti-aircraft fire and yet make a hit is to start the dive higher than the books say, end it lower. On top of that, he would make the plane oscillate most of the way down so as not to be a fixed target...