Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy said he could not remember the exact time when the first information about Kamin had first been brought to his attention. The only evidence he had Kamin was a government employee, he also admitted, was general information that he had been employed in a radar project...
...said that information that Kamin had worked in a government radar project in 1945-46, supplied by either Roy M. Cohn or Francis P. Carr, had caused him to summon Kamin as part of an investigation of Communist infiltration in defense installations...
...something delayed Ione. Although the radio and newspapers continued their frenzied warnings, all through that threatened day hardly a breeze was stirring north of Maryland. At Hatteras, N.C., the Weather Bureau's radar (which shows rain-filled air) watched lone approaching with measured tread. She had a clear little eye in her center (the signature of a hurricane), and around it were elaborate swirls like a spiral nebula (see cuts'}. But lone lingered; her eye grew dim; her spirals dissolved in a structureless blob of rain...
Advance Scout. In Indianapolis, Harley J. Driskell got 60 days in jail and a $77.75 fine after he sat in his car off a highway, held up a sign that warned passing motorists of a radar speed trap ahead, ran into a cop who approached to flush him from his post...
...long-range air navigation system. The sailors estimated their speed, leeway and the effect of ocean currents to give them their rough position. The Ryan Automatic Navigator does much the same thing by making a fix on some object whose position is known (e.g., the Pentagon). While still within radar range, the instruments tell the ground speed, etc., by radar observations. With increasing distance, the instruments operate on their own, by sensing delicately each force that tends to divert the airplane from its proper course. A crosswind, for instance, is felt as a push from one side, and its effect...