Word: armament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble with U.S. aircraft armament, according to the planemakers, is that private enterprise has had no hand in its development. Instead, the job has been in the hands of Army Ordnance, an agency often entangled in red tape and horse-cavalry thinking. The result is that progress in plane armament has fallen far behind the improvement in planes. Said one planemaker: "We build an aircraft which is theoretically the best in the world, and the Army cripples it with World War II guns." (In Korea, the F-86 is armed with merely a jazzed-up version of the 50-year...
...anti-Christ will not be so called, otherwise he would have no followers. He will wear no red tights, nor vomit sulphur ... He will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty ... He will foster science, but only to have armament makers use one marvel of science to destroy another . . . He will even speak of Christ and say that he was the greatest man who ever lived ... In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality he will have one great secret which he will tell...
...these past five years of bickering at the United Nations, armament races, and talk about a third world war, Charles Morris, lecturer in Social Relations, has been travelling around the globe trying to prove that mankind does want peace...
FIRM IN HIS own convictions, he has a deep respect for those of others, as a reporter found who came to him hoping for a strong statement on the rise of Dr. Buchman's "Moral Re-Armament" movement. All he received was a note, ringed around with Knox's usual qualifications ("It's possible that . . . I'm inclined to think . . ."), to the effect that a more emotional approach to religion was due, as there had not been one for over half a century. This is Knox's pet subject and for 30 years his secret...
...Instead of putting our boys and our wealth into an armament program to defend the status quo," argument eight says, "why should we not oppose Communism in the only effective way--by adopting policies that will win the masses away from Communism?" This is a tidy solution as far as it goes; economic aid, food baskets, and an anti-colonial stand can counteract Communism's social doctrine, but not its tanks and rifles...