Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the enemy radar installation has been located and identified, it must be jammed to make it unusable. Two primary methods were developed in action and perfected at the R.R.L.: electronic jamming, and aluminum foil, called "Window...
...other major jamming method, "Window", involves the seemingly simple procedure of dropping huge quantities of light aluminum foil from planes on bombing missions. It was discovered the small strips of aluminum, which is an excellent radio reflector, would, if cut to one half a radar's wavelength, send back a disproportionately strong echo...
...Germans managed to devise some counter-jamming measures, but a combination of "Carpet" and "Window" jamming was never able to answer. So effective was the Allies' jamming system--it reduced German anti-aircraft efficiency by 75 percent--that by the end of the war almost 90 percent of Germany's high-frequency radio experts, some 7,000 men, were diverted from other urgent work to the single job of finding a way to prevent jamming of German radar...
...sand, to newspapers who are willing to stop whistling in the dark and begin to talk. The first alternative is a genuine people's movement throughout the world which consists of a hearty refusal to back their governments in any program of "preparedness," be it window dressing like "peacetime conscription" or serious, scientific preparation to "push a button," together with an equally hearty demand that their respective governmental representatives meet promptly to write a world constitution and to set up a world government...
...Webster dips his pen only rarely into politics. For Lincoln's Birthday 1940, Webster drew a forlorn, storm-whipped, benighted, wilderness cabin, a light in its window like the fever of birth. The caption: Ill-Fed-Ill-Clothed-Ill-Housed. During the war he drew a cartoon showing soldiers, under fire in the Pacific, listening to a radio's soapy-voiced report on the progress of a strike. But mostly he is content to give the U.S. newspaper public a much needed, and not too loaded, laugh for its three or five cents' worth...