Word: huffsmith
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...project, backed by the Air Force through its Cambridge, Mass, research laboratories, has been farmed out to the University of Denver Industrial Research Institute. Working under Colonel Victor C. Huffsmith, the project's scientists have laid out a rough cross with 100-mile arms on the flat plains of eastern Colorado. Spaced 20 miles apart on the arms are detonation points where the explosion of 200-lb. charges of TNT will send powerful sound waves into the sky. At points on a circle 160 miles from the center of the cross, complicated sets of microphones mounted on two trucks...