Word: counters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...troops had moved into French Indo-China, were massing on the Thailand border, that bellicose Japanese spokesmen were complaining of "encirclement" by the U.S., Britain and China. Churchill urged a joint warning to the Japs, wanted Roosevelt to declare that further Jap aggression would force the U.S. to take counter-measures "even though these might lead to war." The President agreed to the joint warning, boggled at the harsh Churchill phraseology...
Radar was only half the story of electronic war. The other half was "counter-radar"-that elaborate series of Allied tricks and dodges to gum up the enemy's radar. Secret until last week, counter-radar had cost the U.S. more than $300 million. But it saved many times that amount in ships and planes. -Headquarters for counter-radar was Harvard's Biological Laboratory. The lab's peacetime monkeys and pickled dogfish were replaced by a regiment of electronic engineers. Their job was to poke fingers into enemy radar eyes. To get in practice...
...Germans managed to devise some counter-jamming measures, but a combination of "Carpet" and "Window" jamming was never able to answer. So effective was the Allies' jamming system--it reduced German anti-aircraft efficiency by 75 percent--that by the end of the war almost 90 percent of Germany's high-frequency radio experts, some 7,000 men, were diverted from other urgent work to the single job of finding a way to prevent jamming of German radar...
...delivered to Paul C. Thurston, president of Maine's Rumford Falls Trust Co., a blue and grey bank-on-wheels. Thurston will do a roving banking business within a go-mile radius of his Rumford Falls bank. The 23-ft. trailer is equipped with a cashier's counter, a teller's cage, a private office, and a stout safe...
Brown, bosomy Hazel Scott attained fame by changing Bach's stately counter-point into boogie-woogie at Manhattan's Café Society Uptown. Last week Pianist Scott considerably enhanced her fame and earning power by not changing the stately D.A.R...