Word: armament
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...claimed this week that bombings of enemy territory, which continued at a crescendo, were according to a "master plan" drawn up by Air Chief Sir Charles Portal when he was with the bomber command. This program sent bombers out systematically after oil plants, armament factories, airports, docks, naval bases, railroad lines, freight yards, barge concentrations, shipping. It concentrated on bottlenecks. Though Germany is comparatively well supplied with aluminum, the R. A. F. went all-out for aluminum factories, to keep the Germans from using the metal as a substitute for copper, of which Germany has very little...
...pounds. Its prodigious cruising range with full load is 3,000 miles; it can go out 1,200 miles and return, with 20% reserve in fuel. Operating from Britain, with tanks only half full, B-17s could bomb Berlin. With full tanks they could reach the great armament plants in Prague, mess up the vast new German munitions industries built up in Austria to put them out of the range of British bombers. They could swing down into the toe of Italy's boot, with plenty of gas to get home again. And to bomb Italian establishments in northern...
...defense program, 58.8% had friends who were chary about going heavily into war industry production. Their main misgivings, in order: i) difficulty of cooperating with an anti-business Administration; 2) delay in letting businessmen charge off the cost of new rearmament plants within five years; 3) fear that armament contracts will interfere with labor policies; 4) belief that armament profits will be too small to justify the risks involved; 5) a feeling that the emergency is not so acute as Franklin Roosevelt would have them feel...
...early August. Last week's raids on these spots were apparently not the worst of the war but no U. S. observers were present to tell how little or how much damage had been done. The British would not admit it, but there were probably serious hitches in armament production. One aircraft factory was hit badly enough to lose perhaps a sixth of its production. This week Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook warned workers that they must not seek shelter during raids until danger is imminent...
...deal with the most serious problems in the history of the Legion. The current street fiestas in Boston by no means embrace all the doings of the Legion. As one of the strongest pressure groups in the country, it took, years ago, a strong stand in favor of greater armament for the U. S. and against involvement in foreign wars, and up to the present it has maintained that stand...