Word: armaments
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...flight surgeons. Most of it was shot at the Naval Air Station at San Diego. Some of it-especially the scenes aboard the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Saratoga-is almost straight documentary. All of it is an extravagant display of millions of dollars worth of armament gaily photographed in Technicolor...
Because Texas is so big, the MARCH OF TIME marched 18,000 miles and used up almost 60,000 feet of film (a record) for its current feature, Thumbs Up, Texas I Result: a corking good film of twangy Texans and their gargantuan State going all out for armament...
...Armament production to protect East India rubber, tin, oil, is of immediate defense concern to the U.S. So is the fact that Universal's new, rapidly expanding rifle and machine-gun capacity could, in case of need, be turned to making guns for U.S. defense. Equally important, providing many a valuable lesson for other emergency producers, is the way Universal sped into production...
...development of a heavy tank (about 60 tons). The Army has no heavies in service, long doubted that it would ever need any. Where & when the new heavies will be produced in service quantities, the Army does not say. Neither is it saying anything about the tanks' armament. But land-battleships of that size could carry perhaps two six-inch guns, a 75-mm. (approximately three-inch) gun, four .50-caliber machine guns. Army men once thought that they had something when they got their first new medium, with less than a third that much fire power...
...simply moving faster. In June he got authority from Congress to make RFC loans to help foreign governments get maximum dollar exchange out of U.S. investments. Last week he used this power to lend Britain $425,000,000, which will be used for pocket money and to pay for armament orders placed before Lend-Lease went into effect...