Word: warne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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G.C.A. is made up of two microwave radar systems. The first is a rotating search beam: it is a modification of the two-dimensional radar used during the war to warn against the approach of enemy planes. Function of the search system is to find the approaching aircraft, and guide it through air traffic into the ten-mile range of the precision system...
...cartel investigating committee. In the voluminous charts and documents under his arm, Colonel Bernard Bernstein, onetime U.S. Treasury aide and now head of the Army's cartel investigations, had all that the Army has learned about Germany's world-girdling I.G. Farben, and he wanted to warn U.S. industrialists what they are still up against...
November 26. The objections to temporizing prevailed; Franklin Roosevelt abandoned his plan for retreat. Secretary Hull handed the Japs a ten-point counterproposal to the Nov. 20 ultimatum. The negotiations, as events eleven days later proved, were over. On Nov. 30 Churchill again urged the President by cable to warn the Japs that any further aggression would "lead immediately to the gravest consequences"; instead, Franklin Roosevelt sent his now-famous personal appeal to Emperor Hirohito...
...movement's third significant figure and elder statesman is Palim, 61, one of its founders. He worked in the Dutch colonial service for many years, led an undercover drive for independence until 1938, is now consulted by the younger leaders on all major problems. Warn Palim: "We have had 350 years of promises from the Dutch: We want no more of them. If you want to start Armageddon again, send the Dutch back to Indonesia." Asked if he would prefer British colonial administration to Dutch rule, he retorted: "Would you rather be bitten by a cat than...
...Penicillin is effective in staphylococcus infections (e.g., carbuncles, blood-poisoning), gonorrhea, syphilis, yaws, anthrax, some forms of gas gangrene, certain heart infections. But doctors warn that penicillin may cause a temporary rise in venereal disease since: 1) treatment looks so easy that prevention is relaxed; 2) quick penicillin treatment for gonorrhea may mask early symptoms of syphilis, so that a man may discover he has syphilis only after irreparable damage has been done. (Treatment for syphilis requires at least 20 times as much penicillin as for gonorrhea...