Word: armament
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Directors and stockholders of Copenhagen's Nordic Feather Co. last week attended their annual meeting. News was good, goose down was up, feathers were flying and the quilt industry, like the armament trade, was booming. Most effusive was the general manager in his praises of handsome Adolf Hitler. Exports to Germany have risen sharply since Der Führer issued a decree granting 800 marks of government money to newlyweds. When purchasing quilts and pillows for their Aryan homes they have preferred the mountainous featherbeds of Nordic Feather...
...handle or stock of the gun, in the shape of the handle of a crutch has been taken and suspicion has been directed both against the anti-war and the pro-war factions. This gun was originally a part of the armament of the cruiser "Harvard" during the World War. With the loss of its handle, the gun apparently lost its pride, for it has begun to droop dejectedly...
Last week Vickers, Ltd., one of the greatest armament firms in the world, held its annual meeting in London. General the Hon. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, chairman of the board, cleared his throat, sipped a glass of water, and read his report...
There had been, he was glad to say, "a very satisfactory increase in orders for land armaments, in particular light tanks and anti-aircraft equipment." He had a novelty to announce. The Whitehead Torpedo Co., a Vickers subsidiary, had just produced a new torpedo specially designed for firing from airplanes, and the Air Ministry was charmed with it. Striking back at uncomfortable exposés of the international armament makers. Sir Herbert cried...
...inflated profits of private armament firms exist only in the imaginations of ill-advised critics. The Vickers group has no part in any international armaments ring. On the contrary there is the keenest competition to secure orders from any country which is strengthening its defenses and has not the necessary manufacturing resources available. . . . Munitions manufacturers should rather be considered as rendering a patriotic service so long as our products are necessary for the defense of the Empire...