Word: armament
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...flies into a tremendous passion, smiting his desk and screaming. Effective, this answered, with a negative more convincing than a calm man could have uttered, Sir Eric's question on behalf of His Majesty's Government as to whether Germany would care to enter an international air armament reduction treaty...
...agent of a British armament firm, Nordenfeldt's, gave him a job selling guns in the Balkans, at ?5 a week. Zaharoff was 28. Nordenfeldt made not only machine-guns but submarines, then a drug on the naval market. When Zaharoff sold a submarine to his native Greece, then sold two to Turkey, he laid the foundations of his fortune and his technique. Nordenfeldt combined with its rival, Maxim Gun Co.; later the combination merged with Vickers. With every step Zaharoff got more commissions, more stock, more power. Soon he was selling armaments all over the world-Russia, Europe...
Statesmen of "eleven nations" gathered in the Locarno Room of the British Foreign Office last week for the opening of a new Naval Conference which all oracles have doomed to fail in attaining its objective: limitation of naval armament. Impressive to behold was the majority of seven nations (Great Britain, Canada, India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and the Irish Free State) dwarfing physically the minority of four (U. S., Japan, France and Italy...
...naval experts with the hope that these specialists in the business of killing each other at sea could work out some sort of gentlemen's agreement in restraint of their trade. The British thought that something might be done: 1) to limit the size and armament, but not the number, of various classes of naval vessels, 2) to have each nation privately inform the others of the tonnage it intends to build so that no one need overbuild out of fear of being caught napping in the naval race. Exit Bigwigs? Though the British plan will be presented...
...between the U. S. and Britain would be a sanction no power on earth would dare to face (TIME, June 17), it proposes an intercontinental subway line and shows the difficulties involved in engineering such a marvel. The workers are hampered by a submarine volcano, the machinations of an armament tycoon and domestic difficulties that beset the chief engineer (Richard Dix). His wife (Madge Evans) thinks he is in love with a U. S. millionaire's daughter (Helen Vinson) and deserts him, a mishap for which the engineer blames his best friend (Leslie Banks...