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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winchester, Va...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 19, 1952 | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...frequency waves do reflect from the ionosphere and can get around the earth's curve. The bureau got the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa to slant a powerful beam of 49.8 megacycle waves into the air in the direction of its own Radio Laboratory at Sterling, Va. The distance between transmitter and receiver is about 800 miles, so the signal might be expected to come through only in freakish bursts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Faint Reflections | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Married. Senator Alexander Wiley, 67, of Wisconsin, ranking Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Judiciary Committees; and British-born Dorothy May Kydd, 41, secretary to Washington Attorney John F. Clagett; both for the second time; in Alexandria, Va...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 19, 1952 | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Deep in the coal country, at Institute, W. Va., 30 newsmen gathered last week to see something new in the way of a chemical plant. From a distance, the $11-million factory looked like many another-a mass of storage tanks, pipes, warehouses, and above it all a thin wisp of smoke. But close up, it was like nothing else in the world. Amid the maze of gurgling pipes and steaming valves, scarcely a worker could be seen. Staffed by only 50 men-mostly chemical engineers-the plant runs continuously, 24 hours per day, with scarcely any need of human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESEARCH: Chemicals from Coal | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Danville, Va., police suppressed, for "security reasons," the fact that General Mark Clark was arrested for speeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Creeping Censorship | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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