Word: armament
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...appropriations to commence during the fiscal year 1939 two battleships, two light cruisers, eight destroyers and six submarines. Since that time world events have caused me growing concern. . . . The fact is that in the world as a whole many nations are not only continuing but are enlarging their armament programs. I have used every conceivable effort to stop this trend and to work toward a decrease of armaments. Facts, nevertheless, are facts. and the United States must recognize them. Will you, therefore, be good enough to inform the subcommittee on Naval Appropriations that after the next session of Congress...
When he overreached himself and went bankrupt, he headed for Manhattan, made a quick fortune in cigarets. Boredom drove him into the munitions business. In Paris, Ulysses created the armament cartel which did the main work in preparing both sides for the World War. In old age "his soul expanded in its power and goodness." Peacefully dead at 71, he got magnificent funerals in Greece and England, canonization by the Church. In accordance with his last will, he was buried simply in his native Greek village, his enormous fortune split into a thousand bequests...
...Poland, M. Delbos was entitled to a good reception, for plans are afoot for a French loan to erect a great Polish armament and heavy industry centre on the Vistula River. Hence Warsaw gave M. Delbos a festive few days. But Poland is notoriously half in Hitler's arms, and long, lean Colonel Josef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister and player of ticktacktoe with General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was adamant against obliging M. Delbos by so much as a communique lauding the League of Nations. The most that grudging Beck would do was sign with Delbos a communique that "both...
...usually of three regiments. It moved mainly on foot. Two years ago, U. S. Chief of Staff Malin Craig decided that engineering and mechanical progress had made the infantry division obsolete, asked his staff for a report on a new unit to embody all changes in power, transport and armament mechanization since the War. Result of his demand, the P. I. D. consists of 13,500 officers and men, contains three unbrigaded infantry regiments, one artillery regiment of four battalions. Most important characteristic of the P. I. D. is its ability to march entirely on wheels. Slogging along on foot...
...which presented the following year an epoch-making report on Japanese policy in the modern world. It recommended that (1) Japan modernize her institutions; (2) that she arm herself in the western fashion; and (3) that she await the pre-occupation of the Western powers to use her now armament...