Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 Electric, many another industrial laboratory. The U.S. also owes much to Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen, who, as chief of the Naval Research Laboratory, sparked its radar pioneering...
...fine autumn day in 1940, a. British engineer, carrying a small black bag, debarked from a ship in Manhattan. He was met by a Bell Telephone engineer. They meandered into a movie before driving out to the Bell man's suburban house. Next day, satisfied that they had shaken off any possible spies, they turned up at the Bell Laboratories with the supersecret device that broke the radar bottleneck. The Briton, a member of a radar mission to the U.S., brought designs anda model of an electronic tube called the "magnetron...
Radiation Laboratory and Bell Laboratories proceeded to develop an uncharted part of the radio spectrum-microwaves. For radar, the relatively long radio waves (one and a half meters) used early in the war had serious shortcomings: 1) they gave only a crude, distorted echo; 2) they had some blind spots, especially close to the ground; 3) they required huge "bedspring" antennae. Microwaves solved all these problems at one stroke. These tiny waves, which are measured in centimeters, can be formed into a beam precise enough to detect the periscope of a submerged submarine...
...Giant $65 billion American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last week announced the biggest of all postwar expansion programs. To improve and modernize the service of its 17 controlled Bell Telephone operating systems, A.T. & T. is ready to spend $2 billion-at least half of it as quickly as materials and manpower are available...
Howey, who rang the bell with his Iroquois Theater fire scoop (1903) and turned Chicago newspaperdom on its ear by his banner-lined blasting of thieving politicos, has quieted down since the old raw-meat days. In recent years he has been running Hearst's dreary Boston tabloids, the Record and American, in quiet, nice-old-boy fashion. So while some of his greying onetime minions like Burton Rascoe and Charlie MacArthur may have felt a twinge of nostalgia, they could not have been surprised to hear that mellowing Walter Howey's first move on the Sunday-supplement...