Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...research budget (now a skimpy $200,000 a year) needed a hefty boost. With about $10 million, Chief Forecaster Francis W. Reichelderfer figured that the bureau could give storm and snow clouds a deeper plumbing, learn a lot more about the mysteries of the upper air, and develop advanced radar storm detectors. The bureau also needed an electronic computer that would allow its statisticians to give more time to careful analyses of weather data. With such new knowledge and mechanical aids, Reichelderfer felt certain that the bureau's predictions would be nearer the mark...
...Government-financed observatory, Reber will have a fine new "telescope," made partly from captured German radar and specially designed for studying radio waves from the sun. (The Bureau of Standards has to be more or less practical with taxpayers' money; the practical project at the moment is a study of how solar waves affect radio transmission on the earth.) But Reber also intends to refine his own homemade apparatus and search the sky for more mysterious "somethings." Perhaps, in time, he can figure out what-and why-they...
...part, the U.S. was not dissatisfied. Of the 134 defense sites occupied temporarily during the war, almost all had been restored. The remaining 14-fighter strips and radar outposts-would give the Panama Canal adequate defense in an air age. One of the fields, Rió Hato, would be built into a $25,000,000 bomber base, under a ten-year lease that could be renewed for a further ten years. Conceivably, with Panama defenses stabilized, the U.S. might now proceed to build a sea-level canal-if Congress had a billion dollars to spare...
...ultimate in program popularity testing was promised last week by CBS. If its new radar-like spy system lives up to its pressagentry, program directors will be all but able to read listeners' minds...
...merchantmen in column is never equally spaced, for each ship has individuality. . . . Around the column is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy...