Word: armament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kurt Schumacher took a strong stand against rearmament unless the Western powers recognized German "equality" with the other Western nations. Schumacher violently attacked Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for agreeing to the West's conditions. Schumacher's followers went further than he and fought election campaigns with demagogic anti-armament slogans. The Socialists in the last three weeks have made significant election gains in Hesse, Württemberg-Baden and even Bavaria...
...German anti-armament feeling has weakened Western Europe's unity and will to resist Communism at the very moment of the gravest postwar world crisis...
Like many businessmen, Barron's Weekly was fed up with Washington's failure to tell businessmen how big the armament burden would be next year. In this needling mood, Barron's last week framed a letter to stockholders from a mythical company whose management was just as hazy about the future as the Administration and the armed forces have been...
Children with impressively styled cap guns and bejeweled double holsters (many tied to their thighs to facilitate a fast draw) were so commonplace that those without them seemed a little underdressed, and those who still carried such outmoded armament as X-Ray Guns or Atomic Disintegrators, hopelessly oldfashioned. When firing, they sometimes seemed a little confused by their multi-programmed backgrounds; instead of just crying "Bang!" like older generation's, they imitated rockets and/or ricocheting bullets ("Ptche-e-e-e-e-e-w"), enormous steel springs ("Boing-oing-oing!"), or machine guns...
Other standard forms of transport are little developed in Russia. Highways are poor, development of pipeline transport has only just got under way. With her present steel output, Russia cannot afford to stress both armament and transport. And transport is one item it cannot stockpile...