Word: watt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scottish-born Robert Watson-Watt was once a meteorologist in Britain's weather bureau. His interest at the time was thunderstorms, and he worked out a radio device to track their movements at great distances. Little by little, he learned how to track other things in the air besides thunderstorms...
...World War II approached, Watson-Watt's "radiolocation," now sponsored by the Air Ministry, became a top military secret. British firms were given orders to make peculiar parts for some mysterious device. When German bombers attacked Britain, the bombers found the island ringed with radar eyes that picked up the planes, tracked them accurately, and told the R.A.F.'s intercepters just where to find them. Without Watson-Watt's radar, the Air Battle of Britain might have been the start of an invasion and a quick German victory...
Harmless Crackpot? Then Houston Lawyer-Industrialist Roy Hofheinz, 39, who had opened a 50,000-watt radio station, KSOX, in Harlingen, joined the attack on Hoiles in an all-out crusade over the air. His station also began taking ads away from the Hoiles papers. Partly because he was pinched by this competition, and partly because they disagreed with him, Hoiles fired the three editors who had stayed on when he bought the papers...
...this day, little (250-watt) WMPC broadcasts nothing but religious programs. No commercials are allowed, and the station's three full-time engineers (two of them ministers) have instructions to cut any program off the air that asks for money. Part of WMPC's $40,000-a-year operating budget comes from the donations of Michigan church groups which use radio time. For the remainder, Frank Hemingway prays, and the money never fails to come in, in small, unsolicited contributions...
Although the group is now informally organized, it may later apply for a Student Government charter. At present it is headed by a six-member committee: Mary E. Beckett '53, Jacqueline A. Crowell '53, Mary L. Desmond '53, Cynthia S. Green '54, Dorothy Lampert '54, and Phyllis Watt...