Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest geniuses." O'Neill credits him not only with inventing the polyphase alternating current generator and Tesla induction motor, which scientists generally have hailed as the basis of "our electrical power era" (TIME, July 20, 1931), but also with discovering the basic principles of the radio, radar, electronic tube, X ray, fluorescent light, electron microscope, rocket bomb, etc. All these and the discovery of cosmic rays besides, says O'Neill, were inspired by basic Tesla findings. Less ardent admirers do not go so far: they classify many of Tesla's "discoveries" as mere hunches, lacking in scientific...
Stressing the navy's need for men trained in the use of radar, the Navy Recruiting Station in Boston has issued an appeal for enlistments in the Navy V-6 Radio Technician Program, a ten months course in advanced electronics first announced last...
Where from? The alert defenders of southern England quickly found out. The Germans were mounting the robots pickaback on old Heinkels and other obsolete bombers, whose pilots took off from bases in north Holland and Germany, launched the robots at sea, at night. British night fighters, guided from radar stations on the ground, went to work against both bombers and robots, and not many of the missiles got through. It was a feeble echo of last summer's terror; but last week the attacks increased and the flow of evacuees back to London slowed down...
Donald Nelson had a polite but descriptive name for the war that was being fought last week in Washington. He called it "a failure to agree on assumptions." The assumptions were basic. In their extreme form, they were: an Army assumption that crisis shortages (radar, heavy trucks, bombs) are so great that this is no time to talk about reconversion; an assumption by one wing of WPB that war production is now well over the hump, and it is high time to begin retooling for peace...
...great city of Philadelphia, the nation's No. 2 center of war production, lay half-paralyzed last week, its transit-nerves cut by the worst U.S. transportation strike in World War II. Its 900,000 war workers (who make everything from hub caps to vital radar equipment) hitch hiked, trudged miles on 'sweltering side walks-or stayed home. At least 500,000 man-hours of war production were lost, Army & Navy officials estimated. Philadelphia's taverns and liquor stores were shut by police; department stores lost thousands of dollars of trade. All this was bad enough...