Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Boxes. Nor are U.S. businessmen content to stop there. Just as today's military radar sets, bombing systems, and automatic pilots are so fantastically complex that they must be removed and sent back to the factory for maintenance, so tomorrow's new radar ranges, electronic dishwashers and color TV consoles will have plug-in motors and control units that only factory experts will repair with special tools and special knowledge. The major labor the U.S. repairman will be called upon to perform-at his $5-an-hour fee-will be to take out a nonfunctioning unit, plug...
...nuclear-armed ICBM, hurtling toward its target at 15,000 m.p.h., would be an "ultimate weapon," against which a nation could do nothing to save its cities from destruction. Last week General Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff, announced that the Air Force has developed a new radar system that could detect an oncoming ICBM as much as 3,000 miles away. Based on the ORDIR (omnirange digital radar) devised by Columbia University scientists (TIME, Aug. 19), the new warning system would allow perhaps 15 minutes for defenders to compute the oncoming missile's course and speed...
Since the rebels are capable of ripping up a mile or more of track in a single night, the train sometimes has to turn back despite all precautions. And so far, French attempts to ambush the guerrillas a-t work have been generally unsuccessful. Disappointing, too, is the radar system which the French set up to catch the guerrillas' movements. "The echo is fine against the rebels," said a French officer last week. "Unfortunately, it works just as well against goats and gazelles...
Samuel J. Novick, radar-parts manufacturer during World War II, reportedly sponsor of wartime Atom Spy Arthur Adams as an immigrant to the U.S. and backer of Communist causes and front organizations...
...million, rushed two to replace a wood pier that burned at Whittier, Alaska, threatening military supply lines, two more to New port News, Va., when it turned out that no docks were big enough for the Navy's 60,000-ton supercarriers. Another job: the first "Texas Tower" radar island, no miles off Cape...