Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shack Out on 101 (Broidy; Allied Artists) confronts the U.S. motorist-already reduced to a walleyed wreck by the massed assault of saturation traffic, maladjusted headlights, homicidal hitchhikers, kids on bikes, the hydramatic wheeze, small-town radar cops and the finance company - with a new and yet more fiendish horror of the highway: the Communist-controlled hamburger stand...
...developed a hydraulic, shock-absorbing coupling gear that permits freight cars to be slammed together without damage. The Southern Pacific has saved itself $1,000,000 yearly by putting inventories under the control of an electronic brain. In a new $7,000,000 switchyard at Houston, it installed a radar-electronic computer control system that shunts a freight car to its proper track, computes weight, windage, distance, then brakes the car to a gentle coupling...
...apprehensive free world comes a terse radio announcement: for the next ten days, a 200-mile-square area in the landless South Pacific is a danger area; shipmasters and airplane pilots traverse it at their peril. The U.S. Navy and Air Force take tip surveillance of the area; radar tracking crews from Alaska to New Guinea stand by their gear. On one of these days, a small, swift object rises steeply from the Kamchatka Peninsula. It soars into space on a curve 500 miles high, curves downward even more swiftly toward the danger area. For a few seconds it glows...
...diameter, weighs 120 Ibs. Its guidance system contains as many electronic elements as four television sets, all crammed into the space of a 2-lb. coffee can. The Falcon is a good example of the complication of missiles. The fighter plane that carries them is guided by ground radar until it is 20 miles from an invading bomber. Then the fighter's own radar picks up the target, locks onto it, and analyzes its relative motion. During this phase, the slim Falcons under the fighter plane's wing are quiet and lifeless. When the target approaches the Falcons...
...Caine Mutiny. It is a bloodier affair than just getting Queeg off his teetering bridge; some 50 sailors and Royal Marines are wounded, two die in a bloody free-for-all on the decks. The H.M.S. Ulysses is a 5,500-ton light cruiser, "the first completely equipped radar ship in the world," the seeing-eye watchdog of the Murmansk convoy run. Unlike that long-drawn-out, suspenseful business on the Caine, Ulysses' mutiny has already taken place, and this is the story of her glorious "redemption." This being the Royal Navy, the mutiny was a lower-deck affair...