Word: dewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radar antenna only once for about 30 seconds to take a radar fix. Did the Russians detect them? Anderson thought not. Detouring along Alaska's northern coast to avoid clogged-up ice, Nautilus surfaced for the first time since Pearl Harbor to get a sure fix on a DEW-line radar station, then headed down again into the fantastic beneath-the-sea new world of mountains and deeps that is the nuclear submarine's true element. Its course: along the Barrow Sea Valley, a deep underwater canyon that leads and widens out from Alaska's Point Barrow...
Radar & Radio. The new airways-modernization plan envisions a network of aerial highways controlled by 100 huge radar scanners much like those at military DEW line stations. Forty such long-range (up to 200 miles) sets are scheduled to be in operation by July 1959, yet only 27 have been ordered and only one is in operation. The plan calls for 138 surveillance radars for close-in airport traffic control; only 45 are in operation now; another 16 are programed for early 1960. The plan also includes 23 precision-approach radars (ten now operating), 289 traffic-control radar beacons (none...
...Berkeley, Calif., though it has not yet lived up to its expensive expectations. Russia put its first pure-jet airliner into operation two years and more before the U.S., and M.I.T. Physicist Jerome B. Wiesner, who helped develop some of the advanced radar for the DEW line, has warned that Russia's air-defense system "appears to be better than...
...specific procedure is that whenever unidentified and unidentifiable shapes show up on U.S. radar, e.g., the $500 million DEW line across Northern Canada and Alaska, or the ship-based radar networks in mid-Atlantic and mid-Pacific, a SAC alert is declared. In his underground command post at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, General Power or a deputy orders one of scores of Emergency War Plans-E.W.P.s-designed to meet every calculated contingency to be put into immediate operation. SAC flashes its orders-"PLAN BLANK"-to any or all of some 70 SAC bases worldwide. At the bases...
...tenderfoot's lariat, but waspish enough to infuriate Texans and amuse the citizens of the other 47 states. After Texas what? Alaska, naturally, and it is a safe bet that Edna Ferber's Ice Palace will be must reading all the way from Seattle to the DEW line...