Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than many anticipated. In coastal Foochow, two months after liberation, Chinese industry and doggedness had already brought civilian life to prewar levels. Streets were repaved, sampan traffic resumed, trade restored. Everywhere in the countryside the harvest promised to be bountiful. In a nation overwhelmingly agricultural and simple, there was solid reason for hope of a quick return to peace...
...order an investigation of RFC's shackling of western industry. Said Kaiser: "War costs should be written off as a part of the total economic waste of war and should not be charged against industry." On this point most industrialists agreed that he appeared to be on solid ground...
Fuel. Army releases end the threat of a real crisis, but the Solid Fuels Administration reports the shortage may continue to some extent. Fuel oil should be no problem, unless transport makes...
Like light, the ultrashort radio waves used in radar can be focused in a beam, are reflected by solid or liquid surfaces, travel with the same speed as light (186,000 miles a second). But for "seeing" distant objects, radio waves have a great advantage over light: they penetrate fog, clouds and smoke, reach out to far greater distances than the naked eye. And unlike light, radio impulses can easily be controlled to give an exact, automatic measurement of the distance to the detected object...
Privacy in the Bathtub. Radar still has many limitations. Since it travels only in a straight line, it cannot "see" beyond the horizon. Because it cannot see through water or most solid obstructions, there is little chance that it will ever invade the privacy of four walls...