Word: armaments
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...that only blind men and fools cannot see that he has. Once he complained that the President was not spending enough or fast enough. Now he cries for economy, for bulwarks against inflation; he sees ahead a bankrupt country. The reason: now the money is being spent for armament instead of public works; and John L. Lewis, the man once mentioned for Coolidge's Secretary of Labor, the longtime conservative Republican, the old-fashioned believer in high tariffs and high-laced shoes, is opposed to it as wasteful...
...Forces nevertheless let a few hints drop on the scope of the Ferrying Command's job. At Detroit, at Nashville, at Dayton and other points it had set up stations manned by crack engineering crews. Their job was to fit transient bombers with items of equipment (instruments, armament, etc.) not available when they finished their last test flights at the factories. To man the bombers, the Ferrying Command already had around 200 air crews, was reputedly planning to run the total up to 600 before long. For this expansion it was training fliers at Albuquerque, N.Mex., and at Barksdale...
...West Point carried more armament than any transport ever seen in New York Harbor: at least four guns, including two 5-in. naval guns, anti-aircraft batteries, machine guns, torpedo tubes, a new and secret protection against magnetic mines. In command of her crew of 750 U.S. sailors, 60 Marines, was Captain Frank H. Kelley, U.S.N...
...pictures were rushed to a big port-complexioned Briton, Sir Richard Peirse, Chief of the Bomber Command. Knocking out his pipe and shutting off his notoriously favorite pipe dream-a dreadnought bomber with high enough ceiling, great enough speed and sure enough armament to make any fighter useless-Air Marshal Peirse set "interpretive experts" to work plotting the exact location of ships, number of planes necessary for a thorough job, other mechanical details. Then Sir Richard sat down with his staff and Fighter and Coastal Command liaison officers to discuss tactics: time and place of rendezvous, level of attack, number...
...general, Winston Churchill drew a picture of Britain fighting what the New York Herald Tribune last week called a "guerrilla war of evasion, attrition, maneuver and retreat"-until such time as Britain's armament catches up with the Nazi striking power. He said...