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Unless German scientists have developed a sight allowing accurate bombing out of turns, glides or climbs, maximum danger period of a Nazi level-flight bomber is in his approach to his target. For coming up to his bomb-release line he must fly in a straight line and at a constant altitude for about 60 seconds (more than three miles at 200 m.p.h.), to give his bombardier time to draw a bead. It is there that he is the best target for the antiaircraft guns. On likeliest directions of approach anti-aircraft guns are most heavily established. The batteries...
...below Crete. Italian airplanes flew out to meet this foe and (said the Italians) damaged a battleship and an aircraft carrier, sank a cruiser. Meantime, an Italian battle squadron put out to protect other Italian warships which were returning from a convoy trip to Libya and evidently were the target of the British raiders from the East. Next day, in an engagement in the Ionian Sea off Cape Spartivento (toe of the Italian "boot") lasting from mid-afternoon until nightfall, the Italian warships (said the Italians) "drove the British back from a threatened attack on important Italian coast positions." When...
Undergraduates were not so startled. They guessed the target of President Ruthven's ire: the campus' noisy chapter of the American Student Union, which had spent a busy spring denouncing U. S. "war plans," and failing to denounce the Communazis. Last week their guess was proved correct and President Ruthven showed that he was not fooling. To a number of Michigan students (the A. S. U. said nine), home for vacation, he sent a curt lote: "It is the decision of the authorities of the University that you cannot be readmitted to the University." Others got warnings. Pressed...
...Chief target was the bill's consumption taxes. These seemed to assume that National Defense can be financed only at the consumer's expense from the start, as though the consumer's dollar were already threatening to give the Army & Navy's dollar competition in producer markets...
...George VI, target for the first time last fortnight of direct Nazi press attacks, congratulated his troops and their French allies upon their valiant retreat from Dunkirk, visited an arms factory to observe munition-making gains, fired a target full of creditable holes with a Bren...