Word: scopes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...traffic was light at Washington Airport one midnight last week, and the radar scope of the Civil Aeronautics Authority was almost clear. At 12:40 a.m. a group of bright blips showed. The operator estimated that they were about 15 miles southwest of Washington. Then the blips disappeared abruptly and reappeared a few seconds later over northeast Washington. The operator called his boss, Senior Controller Harry Barnes, 39, a graduate of the Buffalo Technical Institute who has worked for the CAA as an electronics expert since 1941. The operator told Barnes: "Here are some flying saucers...
Barnes laughed at first, but the blips kept popping up all over the scope. They sometimes hovered, sometimes flew slowly and sometimes incredibly fast. Technicians checked the radar; it was in good working order...
...account for about 5% of its income; the rest comes from Counterattack subscriptions. But by next fall, Keenan, who now has a controlling interest, expects to put out a new product that may give business a lift. He is working on a directory, bigger and broader in scope than Red Channels, that will list people, industry by industry, who have lent their names to or been connected with Communist and front organizations...
...successful in screening and recruiting applicants. Organized in December, 1950, the group has grown from a membership of 40 to morethan 110. Originally, the Committee intended to concentrate on the South and the Far West, where selling and recruiting work is needed most. But the program has expanded in scope, so that members now represent 38 states--most of them midwestern and the group also does extensive work along the Atlantic seaboard...
Citation: "Citizen of a land known of old, newly reborn in our own day as a sovereign state, product of its schools and of the American University in Beirut . . . trained in mathematics, physics and philosophy, scholar and teacher, diplomat and international figure, the wide sweep of your learning, the scope of your perspective and the strategic location of your nation have given you remarkable opportunity for the sympathetic interpretation of the Near East to the West and of the U.S. to Western Asia...