Word: corpses
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He practiced law, got into politics as a state legislator, entered the Army as a second lieutenant, at 33 had a colonel's eagles and the Legion of Merit for his work in the Transportation Corps in Europe. The Independents drafted him as their candidate while he was still...
Married. Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton, 55, rough-&-tough Annapolis-graduated air corps oldtimer, whose varied World War II commands took him from the Philippines (at Pearl Harbor time) to India to Africa to Europe, where his Ninth (tactical) Air Force helped blast the way for invasion; and Londoner Zena...
Until Jan. 10, 1946, scientists had been experimentally limited to the earth and to a thin shell of air around it. Last week, the U.S. Army Signal Corps announced a scientific milestone: on Jan. 10 (and several times since), its radar at Belmar, N.J. had sent a message to the...
Hum & Wiggle. Soon after V-J day, the Signal Corps put Lieut. Colonel John H. DeWitt, a former radio "ham," in charge of a project called "Diana" (goddess of the moon, the wood, childbirth). No radically new apparatus was used, only a modified version of the standard "SCR-271" radar...
The Signal Corps repeated the experiment many times, and disinterested scientists checked the results. Sample check: the echo wave at moonrise-when the first contact was made-was slightly higher in frequency than the outgoing pulse. In accordance with the Doppler Effect, a wave reflected from an approaching body must...