Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ocean floor, fortunately, is a fixed topography; its changes are minute in time. But detecting the underwater enemy is the first job of Thach and his ASW team, and like the submariner, Thach faces the bewildering phenomenon of the sea itself: its lack of homogeneity, its massive motion, its madness, its strange, deep rivers. One undercurrent, recently discovered in the Pacific, is 200 miles wide, 500 to 1,000 ft. deep, flows east along the equator, 100 ft. below the westerly-flowing surface...
Thach swung into characteristically blurring motion, gathering his components and his men, laying out his experimental course over a 100-by-100-mile section of the Atlantic ("My large outdoor schoolhouse"). Alfa's job was "very simple," he explained. "There's 10,000 square miles of water out there, and ours is just a problem of conversion. We've got to convert all that to 350 feet by 35 feet-the space that a submarine occupies out of all that area...
...scholarships, Alabama's Representative Carl Elliott 23,000 and President Eisenhower 10,000. But its passage was a clear victory for Sponsors Hill and Elliott and a sore defeat for hard-rock states-righters, especially Senator William E. Jenner, who doggedly defended the manger with a motion excluding Indiana from all benefits. In four days of hard haggling, Senate-House conferees laughed off Jenner's antics, slowly worked out a bill that gave the Senate, which had little to trade with, a few minor concessions for its reluctantly abandoned scholarship provision. The U.S. needs more federal...
...House, after complicated wrangling, scheduled a vote this week on the Kennedy-Ives labor bill (which neither party likes). Speaker Rayburn set the vote to shift blame for inaction on the bill from Democratic shoulders to Republican, i.e., he would blame the G.O.P. when a motion to suspend rules and take up Kennedy-Ives failed (as expected) to carry a two-thirds vote. To keep blame where it is now, Republicans introduced a new labor bill, prepared to vote against Kennedy-Ives, figured the new bill was a better explanation for doing so. ¶ Indiana's caveman Senator William...
Earth-Angled. In inertial navigation, every motion of a ship in any direction is accounted for and automatically computed to give precise distance traveled. The key instrument is an accelerometer -a container holding a weight that can move, against springs, toward one end or the other. The weight acts like a man's head that is jerked back because a cab driver starts suddenly. The weight thus measures a vehicle's thrust (acceleration), and from this information, an electronic computer can determine the vehicle's velocity. Inertial navigation uses two accelerometers, one to measure all north-south...