Word: armament
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...This Is the Army, Mr. Jones. About 250 civilians piled off the Sunday-night train from Detroit. They were no ordinary recruits, some were beyond military age, some had fought in World War I; all were members of C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. They had come from Midwestern armament plants to Atterbury's wooded hills to train a few days with U.S. soldiers...
Britain and the U.S. The success or failure of any such plan would lie in basic economic and political world conditions. The condition of Britain after the war will be of critical importance. Britain bore the economic brunt of armament long before the U.S. Before the passage of Lend-Lease, England saw her gold stocks reduced from $2 billion to $152 million. Foreign investments and other assets were reduced from about $15 billion to about $10 billion. Much of her merchant fleet has been destroyed. She has been building up an increasing indebtedness, chiefly in short-term balances, with such...
...then desire to pursue a selfish national immorality, to raise a Chinese Wall in a twentieth century world. If we are willing to alienate ourselves from the rest of the world, if we are willing to bear the double burden of the world's enmity and an enormous armament program--such a policy might purchase us a brief period of a precarious armed neutrality. Inexorably, however, World War III would come--and this time the United States would be alone against those very forces that such a policy of selfish nationalism would foster. Callously self-seeking, such a "realistic" policy...
Necessity also lay behind such reasoning. U.S. heavy bombers, with high speed, great defensive firepower and small bomb capacity (two and four tons), are best suited to daylight precision bombing. British bombers, slower, with less armament and greater bomb capacity (eight and nine tons), are best suited to night operations...
This vast increase in capital was made possible, according to the newspaper reports, through drawing on "hidden reserves," possibly carried as surplus or in special reserve funds. Its immediate significance is that probably German armament makers have been salting more away from war profits than often supposed...