Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans, who were known to be experimenting with radar as early as 1935; the Japs, whose physicist Hide-tsugu Yagi was working on basic shortwave studies long before the war (the U.S. Navy called its early radar antennae "yagis"); the French, who in 1936 installed on the Normandie a crude radar for detecting icebergs...
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...
...tankers once fanned out from Aruba to Europe, the U.S. and Pacific. Now, almost all of Aruba's and South America's refinery production of 750,000 barrels of oil a day is going through the Panama Canal to the Pacific; only a thin stream of crude is going north...
...first crude agreement to submit scripts to the Hays Office was not signed until 1924. It collapsed two years later with the advent of sound and the ensuing conflicts with the Authors' League over scripts. A year later, producers agreed to abide by a list of eleven "Don'ts" and 26 "Be Carefuls," but the broad interpretations they allowed themselves soon roused another storm of public protest. It was not until 1930 that the present Production Code, based on the Ten Commandments, was drawn up. And even that did not noticeably improve movie bad manners and morals until...
...first shipment of crude rubber from the Philippines since Pearl Harbor is presumably on the way to the U.S. this week. The amount is small-66,500 Ibs. But the story of how it was prepared, by Mateo Ruiz, 40-year-old chief clerk at Goodyear Rubber Plantations Co.'s 2,500-acre Pathfinder plantation at Kabasalan, on Zamboanga, was one to make businessmen beam...