Word: armaments
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...industry contracts deemed vital to the defense program. These priorities would obtain all the way down through subcontracts and sub-orders for parts, supplies and raw materials. The bill also grants the President full control over the distribution and allocation of all products and materials whose shortages affect the armament program...
...cheerful and therefore welcome note in U.S. armament production appeared in the news last week. In Hamden, Conn, a new factory for making .50-caliber aircraft machine guns had been built, tooled, pushed into production within six months after a contract...
Called "Out to Shake the World," that article, written by the Post's chief editorialist, Caret Garrett, went into a paean over "an armament program on a scale never hitherto conceived . . . not for ourselves alone but for the British Empire, for the Chinese, for any country now or hereafter that will fight the aggressor until he is dead...
...defense contract is a headache contract, and big corporations take them only "in recognition of a responsibility." Author of this remark: Paul Garrett, vice president of General Motors, now busy with over $750,000,000 in armament orders...
Others are not so charitable toward the Army Ordnance Department headed by Major General Charles M. ("Bull") Wesson. From war-tried London have come British criticisms: that U.S. Ordnance does not have enough punch; that the Ordnance Department's ideas of tank armament in even its latest medium tank are already obsolescent; that the Department has refused to go into immediate production of tried foreign models, instead has gone through the tortuous process of originating designs and building and testing models, before tooling for production. This last charge, at least, is no longer wholly true. On order...