Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons, bounded home to Halifax, spirits were high. The morning's "wups"* had been successful. Sailors lazed on upper decks, chatted about a forthcoming Atlantic cruise. Ahead, inside Sambro lightship, lay dense patches of fog, but that was nothing to worry about. The Micmac's radar was the most modern afloat. She sounded her klaxon, stepped briskly into a fog bank at 20 knots...
Hailstones. The scientists, for the most part, kept mum. Some fumbled around with the idea of solar reflections, meteor crystals, ice crystals, hailstones. No astronomer had seen anything unusual. No weather plane or radar screen had picked up any astral bodies. Air Forces spokesmen denied that they had experimental planes resembling the saucers seen in the Northwest or anywhere else...
Sandbar. In the Baltic, after very carefully checking some radar observations, Swedish Navy men dropped grappling irons, gingerly hauled up a case of fine old brandy...
...story of her harum-scarum voyage, well and engagingly told, was first published in England in 1939, but smothered by the war along with other travel books by leisurely private adventurers. If armchair circumnavigators are now willing to knock about under sail without even wireless aboard, much less radar, the Cap Pilar is their craft...
Well they might be. Robbins not only makes the atomic ring (see cut) and the Mix compass, but it turns out some dozen similar gadgets (the Orphan Annie dog whistle, Captain Midnight's code ring, a compass ring for Shredded Wheat, a radar ring for Peter Pan Peanut Butter) for the major users of box-top premiums. Latest to come off the top-secret list: a "weather ring" for B. F. Goodrich. (A tiny sheet of litmus paper beneath a plastic lens turns pink in rainy weather, blue in fair...