Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weapon deadly to enemy planes high in the air and harmless to civilians in cities below, the Genie, crowed the Air Force, is "the greatest advance in air defense since radar...
...honored enough to behave like one of his own characters, British Satirist Evelyn (The Loved One) Waugh showed up as honor guest at a London literary luncheon bearing an elegantly Victorian, 2-ft.-long ear trumpet. Waugh, not widely known to be hard of hearing, waggled his antique radar about happily while chatting with table companions, clowned his listening gear with a flourish when an old enemy, Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge rose to speak, crowed later: "I did not listen to a word he said. I do not like that man. We met once in Africa...
Before T (for test) time, all eyes look for the now familiar telltale signs: the radar search dish on the Cape begins rotating; crash boats put out to sea; the yellow warning spheres are hoisted atop the 90-ft. poles; the eight massive service towers and gantries clank and clatter. The tips of the missiles are often visible on the skyline. "Conducting tests on the Cape," said one missileman, "is like performing research in a fish bowl...
...weeks, triumphantly tested his theory in person. Summoned by Churchill early in World War II ("He could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain to me in lucid, homely terms what the issues were"), he had a hand in the balloon barrage, setting up the radar screen, and counter-measures for magnetic mines. In Churchill's second premiership he served (1951-53) as adviser on all atomic programs...
...berths and a $1,000,000 business last year, plans to add another 300 berths in 1957. Seattle's Bryant's Marina, which struggled along for 20 years rarely topping $100,000 annually, can now handle 400 boats up to the biggest 200-ft., radar-equipped, diesel-engined yachts, and has boosted its business to $6,000,000 this year...