Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cloud on the horizon, no bigger than a boatswain's hand, as the sun rises on a new era in underwater communication: if radio waves can penetrate water to communicate with submarines, they may eventually be usable with different instrumentation for detection of submarines, which are now immune from anything but surface sighting and chance encounters with short-range sound devices...
...year history of radio, man has learned to send signals over mountains, across oceans, and up to the moon and back. But the search for a radio that could transmit signals beneath the water's surface was sterner. To receive messages in World War II, subs had to surface or poke up the antenna-bearing periscope and risk detection. Last week word leaked that the U.S. Navy has whipped this underwater communications problem...
...detecting missile firings in Russia. But specifically, it should be capable of sending orders to subs operating under the surface of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. The Navy says that the signals will reach "deep down." Best estimate is that they will penetrate more than 100 ft. of water...
States' Rights. In Carbonear, Newfoundland, the city council turned off water for ten days at the federal post office and customs building because the government had not paid its water bill...
DESALTING OF SEA WATER, which many governments are studying in hopes of finding an economic conversion process, is well along in the U.S. as part of a $10 million program. Carrier Corp. is testing a promising new method at a $150,000 pilot plant that will desalt water by freezing it, trapping salt crystals between fresh-water ice crystals...