Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CONTINENTAL DEFENSE. Key West gave the air defense of the U.S. to the Air Force, limited the Army to an antiaircraft role. But, using "antiaircraft" as its entering wedge, the Army developed the radar-controlled, ground-to-air Nike (rhymes with psyche), which it now touts as the backbone of U.S. air defense.*Nike has several glaring deficiencies: it is not a homing missile and must be guided electronically from the ground; its range is less than 60 miles, even in an improved model; it does not fit into the Air Force SAGE system of early radar warning against attack...
...apples was on exhibit at London's Physical Society. The teacher is electronic and the creation of two young Cambridge scientists, Physicist McKinnon ) Wood and Psychologist Gordon Pask, under contract with Solartron Electronic Group Ltd. Designed for teaching such routine skills as typing and running radar equipment, the electronic teacher gives patient, individual attention...
...grip on the company, resigned as president in 1948. Following record 1955 sales of $448 million, I.T. & T. in the first quarter of 1956 reported a 6% jump in earnings per share over the same period last year, landed contracts to man and maintain the Air Force's radar Dew line in the arctic and the "White Alice" system in Alaska...
...Navy is a growing family of guided missiles: Terrier, Talos and Tartar, Regulus, Petrel, Sparrow and Sidewinder. With a big stock of conventional big-gun ammunition on hand, the Navy is making no more (except for target rounds). The missile cruisers Boston and Canberra are in service with their radar-controlled antiaircraft Terriers. The ancient battleship Mississippi, converted three years ago to a missile carrier, is a busy floating laboratory for missile development. Two conventional submarines. Tunny and Barbero, have been converted to missiles, and two more conversions are authorized. The Navy is asking funds for five more cruiser conversions...
...called a press conference in East Berlin. Purpose: to protest the building by "American organizations" of a secret tunnel under East German territory, "with the criminal intent of spying." Offered a chance to see for themselves, the Western newsmen were taken to a site some 500 yards from the radar station at Rudow...