Word: armament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of the menace, some Chileans feared, was nearer home. They muttered darkly about reactionary elements in their own country which might welcome Argentine help in overthrowing their democracy. The iron and coal in southern Chile were a tempting plum to Argentine militarists eager to promote their armament program. And around Valdivia was Chile's incompletely assimilated colony of Germans, not all of whom Chileans trust...
...Communists make their own laws, collect their own taxes, issue their own paper money. They are more agrarian reformers than revolutionaries but they are well disciplined. They have developed small cannons out of bored elms. For armament they use captured Japanese guns and when they haven't guns they use spears and clubs. The Soviets send in no aid to them...
...Relatively few"-ten or twelve-.50-caliber machine guns and a 20-mm. cannon are the armament the B-29 carries to fight its way in & out. But the big airplane's remote-control firing system enables the few to do the work of many. It can throw a multi-gunned punch instantly in any direction...
...enough to accommodate both guns and gunner; the job of aiming by hand in a rushing slipstream is taken over by powerful machinery ; the gunner can be warm and comfortable at his work inside the B-29's cabin, insulated from the shock and noise of his rattling armament...
Said one Salvadoran : "What this country needs is to cart every last bit of armament to Acajutla and dump it into...