Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secret Report. Goaded to an answer, Pearson fired off a telegram to the Gazette: "It is true that a report by an R.C.M.P. secret agent mentions Norman as a member of the Canadian Communist Party in 1940, and it is no doubt this report, which was forwarded by the R.C.M.P. in October 1950 to appropriate agencies, to which Blakely and [Senate Committee Counsel Robert] Morris refer...
...entertainment; ABC's John Daly and his associates in political-convention coverage. TV news; CBS's You Are There, TV education; NBC's Youth Wants to Know, TV youth or children's programs; CBS's World in Crisis, TV public service; CBS's Secret Life of Danny Kaye, TV promotion of international understanding; Mutual and NBC's Bob and Ray, radio entertainment; New York City-owned WNYC's Books in Profile, radio education; WNYC's Little Orchestra Society Children's Concerts, radio youth or children's programs; Omaha...
Since that historic flight, kept secret until last week, Inertial Guidance-the gyroscopic navigational system that guided the B-29 without visual or electronic aid from earth or stars-has been an obvious choice to control the U.S.'s ultimate earth-to-earth weapon: the pilotless intercontinental ballistic missile (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). Last week in Cambridge. Mass., a pudgy, square-faced engineer who presides over an aging red brick factory building (still labeled "Home of Whittemore Shoe Polishes," but listed on Massachusetts Institute of Technology records as the Instrumentation Laboratory) outlined the details of Inertial Guidance, just declassified...
...most Americans, what makes an electronics device work is almost as baffling as the secret of life itself. Yet so great are its accomplishments that electronics * is the fastest growing major U.S. industry. From a gross of only $2 billion in 1946 it has become the fifth biggest U.S. industry, with 4,200 companies, a work force of 1,500,000, and sales of $11.5 billion annually. In the next decade the electronics industry will double again to at least $22 billion, and beyond that the horizons are limitless...
...boss for a project rated twice as complex -and twice as costly-as World War II's Manhattan Project. With Major General Ben Schriever in overall command (TIME, April 1), R-W acts as his technical staff overseeing the 220 major companies in the ICBM missile program. So secret is the job that R-W's green-and-pink headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport is among the most closely guarded plants in the nation. So complex is the task, so voluminous are the analyses, reports, computations and recommendations that pour from its electronic brains that...