When the members of the Tizard Mission brought one [magnetron] to America in 1940, they carried the most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores. It sparked the whole development of microwave radar and constituted the most important item in reverse Lease-Lend.
Scientists Against Time, Chapter IX (p. 142), Little, Brown & Company. 1947
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