Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night was pitch black, patched with fog and laced with rain which rattled like beans on the seamen's battle helmets. From the second ship in column, the lead ship Iowa was invisible. Japanese snooper planes appeared only as "blips" on the radar screen, then vanished, having failed to detect the fleet. The enemy coast was invisible to all but the magic eye of the gun directors. In another group, following, were British battleships such as the King George V, with ten 14-inch guns...
...Institute of Radio Engineers was closeted to discuss military secrets. President W. L. Everitt leaned forward with a conspirator's expression and solemnly announced: "Gentlemen, the Army & Navy have now finally given , permission to use the word radar - provided you spell it backwards." Washington has been grinning over this story for weeks. For censorship officers, the story has a double sting: they are well aware that radar has been one of the worst-kept secrets of the war. A favorite gag pictures a mother remarking to her husband: "John, don't you think we ought to tell Junior...
Last week it looked as if U.S. citizens (and the press) might soon be permitted to talk out loud about radar. The Army, Navy, Vannevar Bush's OSRD and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics had set up a new Joint Board on Scientific Information Policy. Purpose of the Board was to tell the U.S. public some scientific facts of life which are no secret to the Japanese. Scientists considered it high time...
...Stewart's party, observing from a plane at 9,000 feet, noticed an effect never seen before: a 15-mile-wide trail of condensed water vapor in the moon's shadow, apparently resulting from the sudden cooling of the earth's atmosphere. In England, physicists used radar to observe stratospheric electrical effects...
...manufacturing facilities for radios, radar and electronic equipment, refrigerators, ranges and home-heating units...