Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start of World War II, Blackett became a key man in Britain's scientific war effort. He developed bombsights for the R.A.F. and antiaircraft techniques for the Battle of Britain, became one of Britain's chief contributors to the development of the atomic bomb...
Like all carriers, the CVA-58 would not go it alone, but would have to operate as part of a carrier task force, to be accompanied by 16 destroyers (to provide a radar and antisubmarine screen), four to six cruisers for antiaircraft and surface support and at least two smaller carriers to carry fighter planes. The CVA-58 will probably carry about the equivalent of an Air Force bomber group, of which the Air Force has 16. One spread of torpedoes or a near-miss from an atomic bomb would put it out of action...
...Navy's 15 modern battleships, only the Missouri is now in active service, 14 are now assigned to the Zipper Fleet. The big ships still possess some utility as antiaircraft support for carrier forces. But even the Navy's crustiest battleship admirals concede that the day of the battlewagon is all but done...
...gave Hudson another chance. After a 1940 loss of $1.5 million, Hudson netted an average of nearly $2 million a year making antiaircraft guns, invasion-barge engines and aircraft parts during the war. By war's end, Hudson's President A. Edward Barit was determined to recapture Hudson's former place as a leader of the independent motormakers. He was one of the first to reconvert. In 1946 Hudson turned out 93,000 cars, nearly 6,000 more than its 1940 total. Last year Hudson boosted the total...
With a Viking's daring, blue-eyed Axel Wenner-Gren founded the Swedish-Electrolux Co. in 1919 and girdled the world with its subsidiaries. Before long, he also controlled the Swedish paper-pulp trust. He bought out Krupp's interest in Sweden's Bofors antiaircraft gun, and started a military airplane plant to make the things the guns shoot...