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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year history of radio, man has learned to send signals over mountains, across oceans, and up to the moon and back. But the search for a radio that could transmit signals beneath the water's surface was sterner. To receive messages in World War II, subs had to surface or poke up the antenna-bearing periscope and risk detection. Last week word leaked that the U.S. Navy has whipped this underwater communications problem...
Says Moran: "The picture changed completely, from a routine effort at radio assistance to the possibility of a protracted search with little promise of success. For even if we did make contact, this young pilot would still have the problem of descending through the overcast without instruments...
...than a year because of the school situation here." Long associated with Fund for Republic programs, Ashmore in his new job will join a group of scholars and experts, e.g., former Assistant Secretary of State A. A. Berle Jr., Columbia University's famed physicist I. Rabi, in a search for ways to improve the performance of mass means of communication...
...keeping abreast of trends than developing distinctive characteristics of their own. Overwhelmingly, the trend was abstract expressionist, in both painting and sculpture. Confronted by much that was grandiose, more that was trivial, the jury of 17 experts, predominantly directors of their own national museums, had to give up the search for jewels, settle on their choice among the semiprecious offerings available...
...this country, he had no idea that he was opening the door on an area of research that would become a lifetime career for him and his wife, Eleanor. His instructor seized upon the suggestion, secured $3,500 for research, and in 1925, the Gluecks began an unprecedented search into the facts and fallacies of the peno-corrective system of the United States...