Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of the disclosure of the Soviet atomic bomb, Meyer said, we must expect increased appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission, a long range air force, a radar defense network, and the fortification of Alaska...
...Navy still has plenty to do. Airbases and beachheads and land-armies have to be put ashore and supplied. Russia has 200 old reasonably good submarines which may someday become quite a headache. The establishment of an offshore radar picket line for spotting and knocking down approaching aircraft is another neat little job in itself. There is an increasing feeling that the fleet ought to spend more time worrying about these tasks, building up its anti-submarine forces and turning out specific anti-aircraft units like the fine new fast-living cruiser Worcester. There is an equally increasing feeling that...
...group schedule as soon as Congress provided the money. The Air Force, heavily accenting bomber construction, would also have to emphasize another kind of plan: it would need more interceptors than it has contracted for. It would also have to speed work on construction of a 24-hour radar net across the Arctic frontier from Alaska to Greenland...
...left he promised an unspecified amount of additional work for the Boeing plants. He also said that Boeing's projected B-52 super-bomber might eventually be built in Seattle, but he added some big qualifications: if it was a good plane, if Alaskan defenses and the Northwest radar screen were built up. Would they be built up? Said Symington: "I am not a military...
From the great valley, telescopic and radar and camera eyes were focused. Radio intercoms, film recorders, telemetering devices, electronic computers, machines that still have no names were tuned up and throbbing eagerly...