Word: armament
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...producing more cars in 1951 than we turned out in 1948-and that is a lot of cars.' And, barring World War III, the cuts will only be temporary. Inside of three years, he said, the U.S. will have superimposed on its 'economy a $150 billion armament program, but it will scarcely feel the effects in the supply of civilian goods...
...thing the camps can't grow is equipment. Armament is the Spanish army's most pressing weakness. Though national arsenals produce plenty of machine guns, Mauser rifles and revolvers, they are tooled to turn out only about a dozen 60-mm. and 105-mm. guns a month. For heavy artillery, the army relies on a jumble of obsolete German, French and Italian guns; finding shells to fit the odd-sized barrels is a head-splitting problem...
...loyalty of Japanese labor during the Korean war showed how low Communist prestige has sunk. Unlike their French and Italian comrades, Japanese Reds were unable to engineer anti-armament strikes, work stoppages or sabotage. Japanese railroads carry record-breaking loads for the Korea war, Japanese factories produce such items as napalm tanks for U.N. forces in Korea...
...Eighth Army last week clamped an airtight censorship on all news from Korea. Colonel R. L. Thompson, Major General Matthew Ridgway's information boss, issued 1,600 words of regulations that forbade correspondents to describe armament and equipment, discuss the Army's "strength, efficiency, morale," identify troops by unit or location, or even to mention the presence of U.S. troops in any sector until the enemy knew it. Dispatches not only had to be "accurate in statement and in implication" but so written as not to "injure the morale of our forces or our allies and . . . not embarrass...
...German anti-armament feeling has weakened Western Europe's unity and will to resist Communism at the very moment of the gravest postwar world crisis...