Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour later, reports came in. Tracked by radar and captured German optical instruments, the rocket had climbed 75 miles into the ionosphere. Three minutes after its start, it hurtled downward, hit the ground 39 miles to the northward at 2,400 miles an hour, and, reported a watching Army flyer, buried itself in sand with a gush of flame...
This particular rocket was not allowed to rise as high as possible (some 120 miles) or to reach its full horizontal range (230 miles). Its only payload: a radar beacon, to make it easier to track, and an assortment of dummy instruments, for crash survival tests. But the Army has more V-25, most of them now being assembled by General Electric Co. from captured German parts. It plans to fire them one a week. They will shoot higher and farther, and will carry elaborate instruments to report by radio every detail of their performance...
...clerical approval. From England, it emigrated to the U.S., where it is still going strong, with most of the emphasis on water-finding. Modern, up-to-date dowsers often abandon the hallowed forked stick for an elaborate gadget pretending to use some scientific phenomenon, such as radioactivity or radar. That is dowsing just the same...
...ship itself needed no radar or other special equipment. When the pilot climbed aboard outside the harbor, he carried a small portable radiotelephone. Over it, he hailed the shrouded shore. The nearest radar operator, watching through his "scope," told precisely where the ship was, and what it had better do next...
Into Zion. Landing in Palestine is a touch-&-go operation. The vigilant British patrol is composed of coast guard stations on 24-hour watch, motor launches and cutters, radar posts. If a ship eludes all these, the authorities may throw a smoke screen around a suspected landing place, then intensively search nearby homes and fields. "Illegals" who are caught are herded into a concentration camp. The Jewish Agency for Palestine, recognized as spokesman for world Jewry, negotiates for their release. Usually the British deduct the "illegals" from the regular quota for immigrants (1,500 a month), before freeing them...