Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all carriers, the CVA-58 would not go it alone, but would have to operate as part of a carrier task force, to be accompanied by 16 destroyers (to provide a radar and antisubmarine screen), four to six cruisers for antiaircraft and surface support and at least two smaller carriers to carry fighter planes. The CVA-58 will probably carry about the equivalent of an Air Force bomber group, of which the Air Force has 16. One spread of torpedoes or a near-miss from an atomic bomb would put it out of action...
Heat Wave. During the war, employees of the Raytheon Co., which made magnetron (microwave) tubes for radar, found that they could give themselves diathermy ("deep heat") treatments by standing near tubes on the test rack. Some of them got so enthusiastic that they thought the waves could "cure anything...
...supply its 54-man drilling force, Humble shipped food and tools in barges and radar-guided Navy surplus craft from the mainland and the Grand Isle base. After three months of drilling, the Humble men struck oil-bearing sand at 7,000 ft., but plugged back the well when it proved inadequate for commercial exploitation. On the next attempt they struck pay oil at 8,665 ft. Humble is drilling another well, hopes to sink another before year's end. Total investment to date: $2 million...
...company.) Next come St. Louis' Mississippi Valley Barge Lines, Pittsburgh's Union Barge Line and the American Barge Line Co. of Jeffersonville, Ind. On their newest craft, the skippers don't have to smell their way through fog, as Sam Clemens and Steamboat Bill used to. Radar does the trick nowadays...
Ships. For the Mediterranean run, American Export Lines ordered two 20,000-ton passenger liners with air-conditioned cabins and the latest safety devices (radar, automatic steering controls, radios on life boats). The ships will be built at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Quincy, Mass, yards. Under a stepped-up program of shipbuilding subsidies (TIME, Aug. 2), the Government will pay $20 million of the $46,830,000 construction cost...