Word: developer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then he has been a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I, a chemist in the U.S. Bureau of Mines (where he helped develop a new way to extract radium), research director of both Standard Oil of Indiana and General Printing Ink Corporation, a professor at the University of Chicago, dean at Penn State, and Director of Science and Education for the New York World's Fair...
...underlying idea is to develop an industrial base in order to realize the dual objective of national defense and people's livelihood...
...seen by Professor Ulich, the text in its present tentative state has two broad aims. Primarily it seeks to develop appreciation and understanding among diverse cultures for the furtherance of world peace; secondly it will endeavor to make available "to all peoples the world's full body of knowledge and culture...
...real miracle of radar was what happened in the next five years: a job of U.S. and British scientific teamwork which created almost overnight a revolutionary instrument, and a vast industry which would normally have taken a generation to develop...
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...