Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent half again as much (nearly $3 billion) on radar as on atomic bombs. As a military threat, either in combination with atomic explosives or as a countermeasure, radar is probably as important as atomic power itself. And while the peacetime potentialities of atomic power are still only a hope, radar already is a vast going concern-a $2 billion-a-year industry, six times as big as the whole prewar radio business...
...they did with radar, Britain, Canada and the U.S. pooled their knowledge of splitting the atom, pooled their atomic scientists. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt had made the arrangement. The factors were: 1) the U.S. had the facilities and the scientific know-how; 2) the U.S. was presumably safe from enemy action...
Commodore Worrall R. Carter, the bald, bony-faced commander of Service Suadron 10, had six types of naval repair ships at Ulithi (one for radio and radar alone). His flotilla included a drydock for destroyers, tenders to make emergency repairs on big ships like bomb-blasted Franklin, Ticonderoga and Intrpid. He claimed that Ulithi's water-taxi service, which ran between ships and shore was the world's largest - more than 400 small boats manned by more than 1,000 coxswains...
...months it has been an open secret that a patent argument between U.S. and British inventors, rather than security, has been chiefly responsible for the hush-hush policy on radar. Thus far, the U.S. and Britain have failed to agree on a radar publicity policy which would satisfy the inventors' conflicting claims...
...Joint Board, headed by Dr. John Torrence Tate, a University of Minnesota physicist now working for OSRD, is intended to break the impasse. Its instructions: to prepare comprehensive public reports on radar and other wartime discoveries, notifying the British of release dates so that they will not be caught napping. Soon U.S. citizens will be able to get authoritative information about radar, one of the big unpublished stories of the war, before they pick it up in the street...