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...Target shooting in Switzerland is still as much of a national sport as it was in the U. S. in 1830. Hawk-eyed Swiss hold nearly all the free-rifle records in the world. Their team world's record, made in Stockholm last year, is 5,442 out of a possible 6,000. On an International target, two inches at 300 metres is all that separates a 10-point bullseye from...
...television pioneer, predicts only a few of the feasible inventions when he suggests "wars of the future when the staff officer can see the enemy through the television eye of his scouting planes, or can send a bombing plane without a man on board which can see the target and be steered by radio to its objective." The science of war will undoubtedly be remade, while ordinary conditions of living, especially in connection with entertainment, should experience great changes...
...sharp wind blew over Travers Island, over the traps of the New York Athletic Club, over the shoulders of squad after squad of gunners competing, on two days of sunlight, gusts and shadow last week, for the amateur clay target championship of the U.S. Businessmen, farmers, clerks, lawyers, fine shots all, they came out for their turns in squads of five. All day for two days the wind bore the steady blam, blam, blam-blam of a little war as the shooters moved, a serious-minded army about 180 strong, from stand to stand at the club's eight...
Naval aircraft in bombing maneuvers used to fly at a safe altitude directly over their target, "lay their eggs," hope for a hit. Rarely were they rewarded. Newer strategy is to dive upon the enemy battleship, release the bombs, pull up sharply?the bomb continuing the path of the dive. Under this terrific strain, wings of an ordinary airplane would crumple like paper...
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