Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radar and pre-radar training units at the University will leave by April 1, Army and Navy officials revealed to the SERVICE NEWS yesterday, in the most drastic cut of Harvard's service personnel since the closing of the Naval Training School (Indoctrination) on August...
Both the Army and Navy programs have been open only for commissioned officers since their establishment three and one-half years ago, but the training was the highest level of radar education for the Army, while for the Navy it served merely as a preparatory course for further, advanced work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Until recently, Harvard's pre-radar school was but one of three operated by the Navy, but on April 1, Commander Roy M. Mundorff, USNR, Officer in Charge of the Radar Course, disclosed yesterday, all preliminary radar training will be concentrated at Bowdoin College, Maine...
Ever since World War II began, the warring nations have been looking for an adequate source of tantalum. It is a superhard, noncorrosive metal that ranks just under gold, platinum and silver in value and is used in radar, machine tools, surgery...
...Electric displayed it in little cans labeled "Bouncing Putty." What use, if any, this curiosity may have, chemists are not yet prepared to say. But bouncing putty is one of a new class of chemical materials, called silicones, which chemists ecstatically predict have as great a postwar future as radar...