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...curtained of war secrets, was bared for a quick peek by the Army and Navy. The word stands for "radio detecting and ranging." Basis of operation, a high-frequency radio ray, scanning air or sea, bounces back from objects it strikes: e.g., ships or planes. Radar measures the infinitesimal fraction of a second this takes (at 186,000 miles an hour), thus calculates distance as well as direction. Both Britain and Germany have similar devices...
Costs are a fraction (about 20%) of concrete construction. But the most spectacular saving is in time. Soil-cement enthusiasts boast (and deliver) "a runway in a week; an airport in a month...
None of these results is conclusive evidence that radio can supplant periodical advertising, and Hollywood does not believe that it can. Nevertheless Hollywood is taking no chances. Its radio expenditures to date are only a fraction of its total advertising budget, but they are rising. Five months ago Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought five minutes five days a week on Blue Network-the first coast-to-coast movie commercial. All major Hollywood studios have vigorous plans for forthcoming radio advertising...
...immediate issues facing Congress is the question of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements, which have to be renewed before June 12, 1943. Due to war conditions only a small fraction of our trade now comes under these agreements. Their extension however would be the first clear sign to our Allies that we are willing to supplement the broad economic promises of the Atlantic Charter by concrete action NOW to continue the trend towards more equitable trade in the future...
...defenses, could base the hope of victory on one belief alone: that when the time came the U.S. would flinch at paying the price of a fight to the finish. That price would be high if the U.S. attacked Japan this year. However high, it might be only a fraction of the price, next year. Time was on Japan's side...