Word: armaments
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...intense submarine war, together with air-and naval-force mass action, will make possible a deathly British Isles blockade. The air war over England will be directed against the armament industry, communications, British field positions. Germany will attempt a radical military solution of the Mediterranean problem at the very moment when German strategy will profit from all chances of direct attack on England. The possibilities of invasion are considered so numerous that it will be impossible for the British immediately to recognize mock actions...
...that group" Nelson referred to the 0PM, where his job, as director of purchases, is to buy the materials for U. S. armament. No catalogue could measure his duties, but one example is enough: by June Donald Nelson will buy three quarters of a million dollars worth of food every day for the new U. S. Army...
...authoritative of U. S. aeronautical publications, came out with its annual directory number, it printed carefully censored descriptions of new war planes like the Army's Bell Airacobra, Navy's Consolidated flying boats. Reason: the Army & Navy had labeled as military secrets such matters as performance and armament of new flying equipment. And, like the rest of the U. S. press, Aviation was trying to cooperate...
...time Aviation went to its subscribers, the secret figures became public property all the same. They were printed in the British The Aeroplane-which operates under strict wartime censorship. The Aeroplane's information, passed by the British Air Ministry, gave chapter & verse on performance, bomb capacity and armament for 36 up-to-date airplanes. All are being sold to Britain, most are used by U. S. fighting services...
Meanwhile, on foreign fronts Göring's trust followed the troops. From the Austrian National Bank he got control of Louis Rothschild's holdings: Austria's leading automobile and former armament company (Steyr-Daimler-Puch A. G.), .the Danube steamship company, a railroad car factory. After a struggle, the Thyssen group coughed up Alpine Montangesell-schaft A. G., No.1 Austrian steel company. In exchange, the Thyssen group got shares in a synthetic oil plant. In charge of his Austrian properties Göring put Guido Schmidt, who as Austrian Foreign Minister had made reservations for Kurt...