Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skysweeper is the highest point so far in the development of radar-controlled guns. When the radar is locked to a target, an electronic computer figures out the target's distance, speed, direction and course. It knows all the answers and can swing the gun so that any shell fired from it will intercept the course of the target in midair. The actual firing can be done either automatically-at the rate of 45 rounds a minute-or by one of the crew. The shells have proximity fuses that explode them as soon as they feel hardware ahead...
...feat so impressed Lord Greenway, head of the British government-controlled Anglo-Iranian (then called Anglo-Persian), that he invited Fraser, at 34, to join his board. Eight years later, as deputy chairman, Fraser planned the merger which combined Britain's two largest oil distributors into one company, Shell-Mex & BP (for "British Petroleum") Ltd., to market Anglo-Iranian and Shell Oil Co. products in Britain. When he became boss of Anglo-Iranian in 1941, oilmen began to think of him as "Mr. British Petroleum...
Missing Man. The day after the autopsy, a brass M1 shell was found at a point near which the fatal shot had obviously been fired. The rifles of 21 men who had been nearest the position were checked by the New Jersey state police. The shell matched Edgar's Garand. The platoon was taken back to the area of the exercise and ordered to reconstruct the attack. Everyone turned up but Edgar, who had stolen a car and gone over the hill again...
Elsewhere is Cambridge, a Crimson shell hit the water for the first time this year and Harvey Love was ready of his second season as coach of crew. We remembered that Navy's great Olympic crew was also preparing for the new season with 14 consecutive wins behind it, minus only the coxswain of last year's first shell. The two crews meet at Annapolis late...
...enormous heat is caused, as Herr Bueren also insisted, by cosmic particles striking the sun's outer atmosphere? Why shouldn't the same particles bombard the earth and set it glowing? And did Herr Bueren really believe that sunspots are gaping holes in the sun's shell, opening on to a cool black core where plant life changes heat into chemical energy, thus lowering the temperature? Pure nonsense, said the scientists. As for heat-reducing plants: Dr. Heckmann & Co. pointed out that science knows of no plants that use up all the energy available to them...