Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand in the Bowl at 1:30 o'clock for the contest, which despite the odds can hardly fall to be a down-to-the-wire battle. Last-minute predictions call for cloudless skies and air on the snappy side, a combination which ought to help fill the huge New Haven stadium, capable of holding 72,000 people...
Design of the equipment to carry out these activities was the task given to the Harvard Radio Research Laboratory when it was secretly set up in March, 1942, as the chief research center on radar countermeasures. Operating in a converted wing of the huge Biological Laboratory, the R.R.L., which employed some 800 technicians and spent more than 15 million dollars on research, developed more than 150 anti-radar devices for the Allied armed forces...
...other major jamming method, "Window", involves the seemingly simple procedure of dropping huge quantities of light aluminum foil from planes on bombing missions. It was discovered the small strips of aluminum, which is an excellent radio reflector, would, if cut to one half a radar's wavelength, send back a disproportionately strong echo...
...into second place among popcorn growing States (Iowa, which grows about 30% of the nation's popcorn, is first). There was only one catch: the Popcorn Processors Association, meeting in Chicago Nov. 30, has one main item on the agenda: finding new uses for this year's huge crop. *Among others once astonished by pop corn: Christopher Columbus, who found the Indians popping it and using it for nake laces...
...last week the Hotel Roosevelt had changed hands three times. But in its huge basement Grill Room, the Royal Canadians were opening their 16th winter at the same stand. In the years between, many a band had risen and fallen: bands with no violins, and bands with 15 of them; bands with plenty of brass, and at least one with none; bands that featured Rippling Rhythm, bands that played Champagne Music. For about the 7,500th time, Guy Lombardo's band slow-dragged I Love You Truly...