Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tells its children that that is just capitalist propaganda: Mother Russia really did it all. On "Radio Day" last week, Communications Industry Minister Gennady Vasilievich Alexenko patiently repeated that the man who first developed radio (in the year 1895) was Alexander Popov of St. Petersburg. (Popov had thought up radar, too.) And what of the world's acclaim for Italian Inventor Guglielmo Marconi? Said Moscow: "Sham laurels...
...Moon F. Chin, once Chiang Kai-shek's personal pilot. "I don't think the mountains are as high as Mr. Reynolds claims," he said. "But we might as well see." With him went 14 Chinese and foreign correspondents, two technicians, and a Chinese crew armed with radar equipment...
Crowther thought the situation was best described by a Little Rock (Ark.) newsman who used a term he had learned in wartime radar work: "American business is at a trembling top."* That "wonderfully expressive phrase," said Crowther, exactly describes how the indexes of prices, sales and national income have risen to a top "higher than anybody believed possible, and for months have stayed there . . . just quivering up and down." It also described the "strangely apprehensive mood that I found wherever I went...
...radar scope, a weak "pip" (signal) can be built up by the gain control to a maximum height, where it reaches a "trembling...
...Radar...