Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teaming up with the Weather Bureau, the Air Force has given scientific rainmaking a full-dress tryout. It set aside an 8-by-20-mile area near Wilmington, Ohio, and dotted it with ground observation stations. Powerful radar sets kept watch on the air above. When promising clouds appeared, an RB-17 Flying Fortress, loaded with dry-ice pellets, took off from Clinton County Air Force Base; an RF-61 Black Widow photographed the operation...
...trade in information and ideas. Wartime's fettered physics, he argued, was not really science at all: "The real things were learned in 1890 and 1905 and 1920 . . . and we took this tree with a lot of ripe fruit on it and shook it hard and out came radar and atomic bombs. [The] whole [wartime] spirit was one of frantic and rather ruthless exploitation of the known...
First prize (a strictly functional Leghorn pullet) went to Tom Currie of Southport, Conn, for his "man"-a creature with a flat, streamlined head atop a flying-saucer body. He had an aspirin tablet for an eye and a built-in cigarette, but "no ears-radar perception; no stomach -no limit on drinking; no legs-walking, what's that?" Second prize (an egg) was won by Julian Everett of Manhattan for a cork-calved, swivel-eared robot whose right hand was a "clam digger for getting," his left a "built-in money box for keeping." Among the items...
...Throughout the war, he carried the major responsibility for the organization of the nation's civilian scientific effort in the development of new weapons, exercising absolute dictatorial power over men and materials in the two billion dollar research program which developed radar, new devices in the field of chemical warfare, and, finally, nuclear physics," the citation reads...
What the Russians Sent. Hensch's plane came over the crumpled heart of Berlin to circle back for its landing under the careful coaching of G.C.A., the radar control for helping planes on to the ground when weather closes in. (Even on good days G.C.A. stays in action to keep the operators and the pilots in practice...