Word: speed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Went full speed ahead on plans for a new flush-deck aircraft carrier, smaller than the 65,000-ton supercarrier United States, which was shelved during Economizer Louis Johnson's regime, but larger than anything now in service and capable of launching atomic bombers...
Nine Plays. Rupp relies not only on a lot of shooting (10-15% more than the average team), but constantly demands "speed and a lot of ball handling." Rupp denies that Kentucky's rapid-fire shooting produces razzle-dazzle basketball. "With our nine basic plays," claims Rupp, "we are probably the most definite [i.e., deliberately patterned] team in the country...
This atomic-age potboiler appears to make sense to its adolescent audience. Many adult viewers are soon lost in its trackless, pseudo-technical doubletalk ("Forty-seven degrees inclination, speed seven miles per second; temperature calibrated at zero three; interior pressure stable at nine oh nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that...
...move so fast that the pilot has only a few seconds for firing, and human eyes and brains cannot be depended upon to select those seconds unfailingly. The radar gunsight (still under thick wraps) makes all the calculations automatically. It tracks the target, measuring its distance, direction and relative speed. All the pilot has to do is keep the target inside a circle of light on his windshield. When the enemy plane is in a position where it will be hit, the gunsight knows it -and fires the guns...
...asked Radio Corp. of America to design a special apparatus to copy pages from books or bound periodicals and send them quickly over a wire. Last week the new high-speed "facsimile transmitter" started working. A chemist at Y-12 site called the library at X-10 site and asked for a two-page article in a chemical journal. In 4½ minutes a copy came out of a receiving apparatus at Y12. No matter how hot the copy might get, it need never contaminate...