Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also exciting-because the screen is so unaccustomed to plain talk-to see and hear the angry discussion of postwar prospects which Scripter Albert Maltz has written for the hospitalized marines. Effectively outspoken, too, is Lee Diamond's reminder, to Al, that blindness gives him no monopoly on job handicaps-that Diamond himself has been plentifully handicapped all his life because...
...Humbly Invite." In Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang held tense conferences with U.S. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of all U.S. forces in China, and with U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley. Then he moved swiftly...
...Albert Einstein, no experimenter, launched the idea that mass and energy are the same thing, in different states. The matter in the nucleus or core of the atom (which is practically all the matter there is) was conceived as a packet of energy in highly concentrated form...
Among those in the U.S. who had a hand in its development were: a Navy quartet. of physicists and radio hams-Albert H. Taylor, Leo C. Young, Robert M. Page and Louis A. Gebhard-who pioneered radar in the '205 and '303; the Signal Corps' Colonel Roger Colton (now an A.A.F. major general), whose laboratory staff at Fort Monmouth designed the first Army set; Stanford University's R. H. and S. F. Varian, who invented the important klystron tube; and a great anonymous army of scientists at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories, General...
Idea into Miracle. Radar's significant history began one hot summer's day in 1922, when the Navy's Albert Taylor and Leo Young, noticing that ships passing up & down the Potomac distorted short-wave signals they were sending across the river, conceived the idea that radio waves might be useful in detecting enemy warships. By 1940, Army & Navy radio experts had built a few bulky sets which could locate sizable objects on the water or in the air, but could not identify them...