Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radar operators during the war were frequently worried men. They worked with novel transmitters which sent out powerful beams of little-known ultrashort waves. What effect might these have on human flesh and blood? Some servicemen feared alopecia (loss of hair) or leucopenia (loss of white corpuscles). But most of all they talked about sterility. A few demanded lead pants or jockstraps...
...victims were male guinea pigs. Thirteen were penned in small cages 18 inches from the antenna of a radar transmitter. Nine were exposed to the waves direct. Others were shielded by sheet copper, which would not stop any X rays the apparatus might be emitting...
...more than 50 days, three hours a day, the radar blasted 45 kilowatts of ten-centimeter waves at the little animals. No hair fell out-no alopecia...
...General Motors' subsidiary, Yellow Truck, as comptroller, moved up fast. In 1933, he became board chairman of North American Aviation, eventually landed in a G.M. vice presidential chair. In 1942, G.M.'s brown-haired boy was elected president of Bendix, controlled by G.M. By taking tough radar and radio contracts that other companies did not want, he pushed Bendix's annual gross up from $40,000,000 to nearly $1 billion. He still found time to play golf, fly his own plane, and pitch hay on his ten-acre farm near Detroit. With Ernie Breech calling signals...
Most U.S. harbors are not as foggy as Britain's, but Navy authorities believe that a system like Liverpool's would be "of definite value" in avoiding delays and collisions in thick weather. Plenty of radars are lying around, left over from the war. The Coast Guard, after a series of experiments in Delaware Bay, hopes soon to put some radar cops to work...