Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming in the midst of the forum series which the Council has been sponsoring for public relations purposes this year is a tea for all men interested in working on the committees and sub-committees which form the Council's executive system. The "get acquainted" affair will be at 4 p.m. today in Phillips Brooks House...
...Senate's inquiries into the activities of Washington five per centers probably will not be resumed this year, Senator Clyde Hoey (D-N.C.) said yesterday. Hoey, who heads the investigating sub-committee, said that only unexpected developments would reopen hearings this year...
...think of it in more practical terms-it is their biggest payroll and a financial well which waters the city and a great part of the country around it. This summer, with a postwar peak of 26,000 employees working on B-50s, on doubledecked Strato-cruisers and on sub assemblies for its jet-powered B-47, it was supporting one in seven families in Seattle...
Every veteran of submarine war patrols has stories of false "enemy contacts" reported by underwater detecting devices. If the signals were only reflections of the high-frequency sound waves sent out by the sub itself, false alarms could easily be caused by whales or schools of fish. But far more baffling were the cases in which a different sound impulse was recorded. This, it seemed, might be the enemy's own detection device at work. Many a crew was called to battle stations ready for deep-sea combat, only to learn that the signals had been lost...
...possible conclusion: whales and their kin were the real inventors of sonar.* What they used it for, men can only guess. Mrs. Fish found apparent confirmation of the theory in the pig-boats' logs: when a sub jammed the "enemy's signal by sending out its own sound waves, the transmission stopped. Evidently the whales were confused...