Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondents further guessed that foo-fighters were intended: 1) to dazzle pilots; 2) to serve as aiming points for antiaircraft gunners; 3) to interfere with a plane's radar; 4) to cut a plane's ignition, thus stop its engine in midair...
Building of carriers and cruisers has been delayed as much as nine months. Other "critical" items which will run short unless more workers turn to: rockets, high-capacity ammunition, 40-mm. guns, aircraft, repair parts, dry cells, radar, wire and wire rope...
This new world of machines, which may well play a key part in furnishing some of the millions of postwar jobs needed, is by necessity a young man's world. In electronics, synthetic rubber, radar, aviation gas, etc. the young men were in at the start. By the time they were proven, it was too late for the older men to catch up. Company after company, totting up the average age of its new experts, found it as low as 25. Probably 50% of the engineers and chemists in the synthetic-rubber industry are under 26. Some...
...John K. Stotz, Signal Corps, USA, head of the Army units in technical training here, announced that a third group, under his command, would remain at the University until the end of July. This school, the USAAF Weather Wings, trains enlisted men in the use of special equipment, not radar, for weather observation...
...closing of the radar training program here will pose several problems for the University typical of those which it will experience during the reconversion period, Professor Emory L. Chaffee, director of the school's staff, admitted...