Word: bureaumen
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Something different happened. Bureaumen Ross Bateman and G. Franklin Montgomery had little trouble picking up the Cedar Rapids signal. Slanting down from above, it was faint but continuous...
...bureaumen now believe that the ionosphere is not entirely transparent to high-frequency waves (above 30 megacycles). They think its ionized layers are stirred into turbulence, perhaps by meteors, and that patches of its gas are always in a condition to reflect small amounts of high-frequency energy...
...bureaumen refuse to conjecture what other duties these waves may perform, but their tight-lipped secrecy and intense interest suggest a military function. Best guess is that they may be used to steer guided missiles...
...When the bureaumen are asked what they would do with the Columbia, they go into engineering ecstasy only slightly tempered with apology. Few parts of the West, they say, are wholly inaccessible to the water of Oregon...
...Bureaumen believe that eventually 50 million more acres can be irrigated west of the Rockies, and that this would feed an additional 75 million people. Even after that, there is plenty more. East of the Rockies lie large areas of semi-arid land that could increase their production mightily. It would be quite a job to pump the Mississippi into Texas and Oklahoma, but the more enthusiastic bureaumen believe it could be done. ¼We and our contractors,¼ they say, ¼enjoy pushing rivers around...