Word: radars
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Radio Roughhouse, revue produced by students and instructors of Radar at the University, will be presented in Memorial Hall at 8 o'clock Saturday, December 11, to an expected audience of 2,000. This will be the revue's fourth edition. Tickets will be sold at the door...
...fourth edition of Radio Rough House. Those students who were here for past parties are fully aware of the pleasantries in store for them. But the officers who have arrived since the last jamboree have yet to enjoy the wholesomeness, gaiety, and prevailing good fellowship of this Radar get-together...
...starry-eyed young WAVES in front of Schraffts this afternoon. Since this is between replenishment periods, we deduced Radar; was right. Gave them desired directions and they mentioned, (all the while glancing surreptiously at passing uniforms) that there seemed to be possibilities here. Trying in vain to match their eagerness I assented and rushed home in order not to miss second mess...
Electronic Front. The latest thing in radar, Gray reports, is its use in directing anti-aircraft fire. It gives guns accurate range and direction even against planes hidden by clouds, and in conjunction with instruments that make corrections for plane speed, wind, etc., it makes gunfire virtually automatic...
...Army now uses more radio equipment than was manufactured for the entire nation in peacetime. The Signal Corps, which operates it, has more men than Napoleon's whole force at Waterloo. Aside from radar, electronics is one of the most versatile developments of World War II. In industry, electronic tubes perform such diversified jobs as shutting off the air in a Bessemer furnace when the molten steel reaches exactly the right white-hot brilliance, tempering shell casings to toughen them, examining all sorts of materials for hidden flaws...