Word: armaments
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Bottlenecks which are delaying American re-armament and preventing the swift development of United States military defenses will be discussed by two army captains tomorrow evening at an open meeting of the Business Economics Council...
...soup," i.e., horsepower. In soup the new radials were ahead of the Allison by close to 2-to-1, even when the Allison was putting out its full power. Excess power means not only more speed, but better climb, higher service ceiling, more ability to lug the heavy armament load needed in modern fighters...
...numbers the army in the field is to grow from 17000 to 1,400,000. In weapons there is a range from handgrenades to 28-ton bombing planes. In the World War we would have taken 24 months to produce complete armament for our forces. The war was over before the work was finished...
...have many fundamental factors in our favor as to armament. Our stock piles of raw materials are ample. Our production facilities are greater than these of any possible combination of hestile powers. Our inventive genius in unsurpassed. With such resources we shall have no excuse if our army is not completely motorized, if it does not have the arms of the greatest fire-power, if it does not have planes of the greatest performance and in the greatest numbers...
There can be little doubt that the exigencies of the present armament program and the current emphasis upon unity in the common effort have strengthened the hand of Mr. Dies in his bid for a renewed subscription. No one questions the threat or even the actual existence, of a certain degree of attempted sabotage directed at the defense program. The country needs a watchdog to guard against such criminal activity. But everyone knows that a good watchdog is not an inexperienced loud-mouthed puppy that scents a burglar in every bush and snaps at every stranger. The Dies Committee...