Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond television broadcasting, the new tube has fascinating possibilities. Some are military. Perched in the nose of a pilotless bomber, the tube could watch the terrain below, projecting what it sees on a screen in a guiding airplane many miles behind. By watching the screen, an operator who remains in faraway safety could steer the bomber cross-country by remote control...
...must have five million new ones in the next decade. He is requisitioning land for building, said Bevan, and will worry about payments to landowners later. Other points: it will be low-cost housing; local authorities will erect it; materials will be scheduled just like bomber parts; the homeless will be billeted in other people's spare rooms as long as necessary. And by 1950 the problem should be licked. Britons hoped that Bevan would get along with it faster than he has to date...
...polite gentlemen on ITMA are always saying to each other: "After you, Claude"; "After you, Cecil"-phrases which bomber pilots frequently use when circling an aerodrome...
World War II halted his search for a while. Commissioned a first lieutenant, he did photo reconnaissance with the 12th Bomber Group, was wounded in North Africa. A fortnight ago, healed and discharged, he went to Great Brewster Island to take up once more the search for the legendary gold...
...list contained no major surprises: all but the small vessels had been identified before hostilities ended. One minor surprise: the minesweeper Crow was sunk in Puget Sound in 1943 by "air attack" -a nonexplosive torpedo dropped by a U.S. training bomber sent the 97-ton craft to the bottom...