Word: dew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...materials moved north by air last week to launch the biggest arctic defense project the U.S. and Canada have yet undertaken: construction of the Distant Early Warning line (DEW). When the system is finished in about two years, its radar and other detection devices will keep around-the-clock alert from the Yukon to Greenland against intruding Soviet aircraft...
Ferrets & Dew. Soviet ferret raids have already felt out North America's defenses. U.S. jets on radar alert, scrambling from bases in Alaska and elsewhere, have repeatedly spotted distant Red reconnaissance planes. The Russians' mission: to try out the radar screen, draw out interceptors, chart and time defense reactions...
Jointly, Canada and the U.S. decided this fall to go ahead with a Distant Early Warning ("Dew") radar line along the continent's Arctic edge, some 1,800 miles north of Chicago, far enough away to give the U.S. three hours' warning. But the mid-Canada line will not be ready for months; the Dew line will not be ready for years...
...position, Buttrick will head the group directly responsible for determining all Phillips Brooks House policy. Most important on the committee's current agenda is consideration of Graduate Secretary Cornelius DeW. Hastle's plans to extend PBH office space and endowment to University religions groups...
Cabinet feeling formed against the movement, after Graduate Secretary Cornelius DeW. Hastle '52 disparaged the movement. Hunt and Hastle both warned the PBH leaders to be very careful about their relations with the group. While MRA has in certain fields established positive good, it tends to be "overly subjective and compulsive and often claims as supporters people who are merely interested in their cause," Hastle said...