Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great was the radio noise that Alan Max well, director of the Harvard station at Ft. Davis considered sending a bulletin to the IGY World Warning Center at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, to recommend the declaration of a special World Interval, an alert to scientists to keep an especially sharp watch for unusual occurances. It was unfortunate that he did not consider the evidence strong enough for such a step, because the next day one of the greatest of all magnetic storms struck the Earth...
...National Alert Urged...
...effective warning system much before 1960-61, in any event can hardly hope for much more warning than the 15 minutes' interval between blast-off and strike. Said SAC's Commanding General Tom Power in testimony last month before the Preparedness Subcommittee: SAC has no "airborne alert" in the sense of loaded bombers in midair at all times, and without adequate warning "it is conceivable that you could knock...
...Alert. As soon as De Gaulle took power, he restored Ely to his old job, encouraged him in the quiet dispersal of May 13 plotters, including General Raoul Salan, the overall commander in Algeria, who has now been made Commandant of Paris, an honorific post. But the sickness of the French army runs too deep to be cured by reassigning a few senior commanders. The real problem, as De Gaulle sees it, is to give France's young officers a mission more stimulating than colonial suppression...
...weeks ago De Gaulle quietly issued a series of drastic decrees placing on the army's shoulders full responsibility for preparedness against atomic attack and "subversive ideological war." Under these decrees, if the President officially declares a "state of alert," every citizen of France between 17 and 60 automatically becomes subject to mobilization and military justice. The task assigned to each individual -military, civil defense or industrial-would be determined by army-run "zones of defense," each capable of carrying on even if communication with Paris or all other zones...