Word: armament
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Reduction of Armament: "We do not propose to reduce our Navy defenses below that of any other nation...
...creation of wealth, yet today we face the fact that society provides no adequate economic security for those who help produce its wealth." Recommendations: A planned industrial economy, shortened labor hours, abolition of child labor, introduction of unemployment, accident and disability insurance, the turning of public income from armament building to "productive employment enriching the com mon life." A committee of three bishops was named to urge immediate jobless relief on President Hoover. ¶Condemnation of gambling "from the crap game in a slum alley to speculation on the Stock Exchange." Recommendation: more vigorous enforcement of gambling laws...
...fighting plane is "built around the needs of pilots and armament, the new passenger ship is built around an unusually spacious cabin for ten passengers and cargo. Twin supercharged Wasp engines, streamlined into the low wings, will pull the ship 155 m. p. h. cruising speed, 175 m. p. h. top speed. The new ships will cut United's coast-to-coast flying time from 27 hr. to 24. New York-Chicago will be flown...
Purpose of Fleet Problem No. 13, which followed the Grand Joint Exercise in Hawaiian waters, was to assay the vulnerability of the Pacific Coast to a mighty naval armament convoying troops, and the possibility of warding off such an attack by a lighter, more mobile defending force. The Blue attackers, under the command of Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, commander of the Battle Forces, consisted of nine battleships, four light cruisers, 23 destroyers, one mine layer, four light mine layers, aircraft carrier Saratoga ("Sister Sara"), 104 planes, 18 auxiliary craft representing 30 troopships. The Black defenders, commanded by Vice Admiral Arthur...
...activities in the Far East were a large psychological factor in propelling the bill out to the Senate. An anxious state of mind was reflected in Secretary Stimson's hint that Japanese hostilities in China might justify a general abrogation of the Washington and London treaties limiting Naval Armament...