Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connecticut troopers, who pride themselves on their scientific methods of crime detection, had set a futuristic ambush for the criminally hasty. Using camouflaged radar, the Nutmeg finest can now detect a 45-plus speed even in the softest purring Cadillac...
...Radar and communications stations in the north, particularly the northwest...
...playground." He proved the theory that the earth is circled by electrically charged layers in the upper atmosphere, came to know more about them than any man alive (there is an Appleton layer, usually about 140 miles above the earth*). His researches made possible the development of radar, won him a knighthood and the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics...
...assumption that most existing equipment would be antiquated by the time there was another war) has sold or given away the enormous total of ?546 million worth of supplies and equipment. Other material is rotting and rusting in dumps, particularly in Germany. In one case, radio and radar equipment was stuffed down an old mineshaft and sealed with concrete. An energetic farmer dug it out, sold it at a nice profit, and considerably embarrassed the officials who had buried it in the first place...
Christmas Day, 1948 will be "unpleasant with rain or snow," and New Englanders may as well face it. Abe Weatherwise says so. For a century and a half, the meteorologist of the Old Farmer's Almanac has been predicting the year-round weather, and for all its radar and radio balloons, the U.S. Weather Bureau has never been able to woo his fans away. His forecast for the coming winter is a moderately pesky...