Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no sign of disorder. It was not an angry crowd. But it was good-naturedly determined to show that it was solidly behind some 3,000 striking A.F. of L. machinists of the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. (locks, hardware, radar), Stamford's largest employer...
Notable omission: radar-released from military secrecy last August...
...citizens discovered last week that perhaps their most potent secret weapon of World War II was not radar, not the VT fuse, not the atom bomb-but a harmless little machine which cryptographers painstakingly constructed in a hidden room at Fort Washington...
...they grew respectful. A native New Guinea scout, Koigi said his flesh rose whenever the enemy was near. At night, in deep jungle bivouacs, he would suddenly awaken, feel the skin tightening on his arms, whisper to his sergeant: "Japan man, Japan man." He was always as right as radar. Once, at Koigi's direction, the Aussies threw a grenade 50 yards up the dense jungle trail, killed an unseen...
...Army used what it called "Sferic" - Static Direction Finder - a device developed in Florida and combat-tested in the storm-ridden Pacific theater. Sferic employs a radar-like directional antenna (two mutually perpendicular receiving loops) and cathode-ray tube. Certain types of storms are accompanied by severe electrical disturbances, familiar to every radio listener as the crashing static that accompanies a thunderstorm...