Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's largest island and stationary aircraft carrier. It would be as valuable as Alaska during the next few years, before bombers with a 10,000-mile range are in general use. It would be invaluable, in either conventional or push-button war, as an advance radar outpost. It would be a forward position for future rocket-launching sites. In peace or war it is the weather factory for northwest Europe, whose storms must be recorded as near the source as possible...
...airlines' heavier death toll had been caused by more traffic, and more congestion at airports (many of them inadequate). One hope of betterment lay in the fact that "ground-controlled approach," in which radar is used to guide a pilot on to a field he cannot see, was being installed at New York, Chicago and Washington airports. Pan American Airways had put it in at Gander, Newfoundland (after a Belgian airliner crashed there, killing 27). If used at all large airports, G.C.A. might cut airline fatalities in half...
Sabotage & Silly Reasons. The normal atmosphere, however, was grudging cooperation and hardly a trace of good will. U.S. planes which came down behind Soviet lines in Europe were in many cases simply taken over by the Red Air Force, without a by-your-leave. Permission to set up radar stations in Soviet territory to guide Allied bombers over Eastern Germany was curtly refused ("the silly reason . . . that they would have caused interference to Red Army radio communications"). U.S. shuttle-bombing bases in the Ukraine were established only after months of painful negotiation, and then, says General Deane, "the [Soviet] General...
...Army sent a radar impulse to the moon, heard it bounce back. This was the farthest stretch of human communication. It said nothing whatever...
Weather & Magnetism. The icy winds which howl off the icecap affect the whole world's weather. Little is known about these winds. The Navy's meteorologists will study Antarctica's storms, using everything from sounding balloons to radar. They will take the temperature at all depths of the cold Antarctic seas, clock the powerful currents that surge northward to affect the climate of South America, Australia and Africa. The data they collect should help stay-at-home weathermen...