Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the squabbling got organized, by formation under WMC of an inter-agency Committee on Manpower Claimants. First job of the CMC was to decide which industries rate deferments. By week's end CMC had settled on five: aircraft, landing craft, rubber, rockets, radar. Competition was still fierce, since it is planned to defer a maximum of only 75,000 men. Once the industries are agreed on, the next job will be to list the most critical plants within each industry. Final selection of workers to be deferred will be left to plant bosses, local and State draft...
...lowering its wage levels; cheap-goods industries are probably gone for good. Instead, uses must be found for skilled, high-priced hands. The planners hope that their region's slow and cumbersome transition to diversified, top technological industries will have been telescoped by the war. Already, plastics, radio, radar and rubber are key New England war contributions-industries which spend heavily in research and look boldly into the future. If Leverett Saltonstall's planners, on a plant-to-plant level, can help speed New England's second Industrial Revolution, revitalized New England may keep her stacks smoking...
...Bari: "The Germans tried a new method of attack to evade radar . . . blew up two ships filled with ammunition, causing great damage. . . . German reconnaissance the next day had no idea of the extent of the damage. . . . There was an immediate job to be done in harbor clearance, reorganization of radar and fighter coverage before ordinary security would allow them to know the extent of their operation." (The U.S. press got its first news of Bari 15 days after the attack...
Radcliffe College invites the V-12 unit, the NROTC, and the midshipmen and officers of the Naval Supply School, along with the Pre-Radar School, to a dance at Radcliffe, to be held in Agassiz Living Room (opposite Cambridge Common) tomorrow from...
...privilege of sea duty would not be denied those who have striven so assiduously main lines of resistance, but reported that foxholes along Mass. Avenue, Bowling Green, Dunster, and Claverly, are well filled. Chernow, Cassel, Nash, and Beauty are first in line for the senior house after six radar, two communications, and four chaplain...