Word: armaments
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...James Howard Kindelberger of North American Aviation has been turning out advanced training planes, stacking them on the shelf, for delivery. Boss of a company that is 29.1% owned by Bill Knudsen's General Motors Corp., "Dutch" Kindelberger was banking on promises and the urgent necessity of emergency armament. In producing the planes that the services will need first and most in 1941, he was away out in front...
...immobilize, by persuasion or force, the one remaining capital ship of France's Navy not already knocked out or taken over by Britain. Mightiest Frenchman of them all, the brand-new, 35,000-ton Battleship Richelieu, mounting eight 15-inch guns and a bristling mass of lesser armament, lay somewhat ahead in the tropic darkness, inside a net-boom in the harbor of Dakar. Smaller French warships lay there, too, to protect her, and all were well warned of an impending attack. For the Richelieu's commander had been signaled and had refused surrender terms similar to those...
...bewildering job. The Board had announced that it wanted 10,000 men, either 1) employed mechanics, or 2) unemployed (registered with the State Employment Service) with some machine experience, to be put through ten-week brush-up courses for work in U. S. armament factories. Many an applicant wanted to know how much he would be paid while studying (answer: nothing). Many another, eager to serve Uncle Sam, had given up his job to enroll. Among the applicants were night watchmen, janitors, clerks, boys who had never worked. Housewives phoned to recommend their husbands, explained that although the husbands were...
...World War I, I was one of the first flock of volunteer assistant secretaries to the General Munitions Board (later the War Industries Board) and subsequently an Aircraft Armament officer in the A. E. F. For the past number of years, I have been editor of a national magazine devoted to Conservation of our Natural Resources, and also a New Mexico dude and cattle rancher...
...will his dependence upon these National Saviors outlast the coming political campaign? We may depend upon the President to work harmoniously with them until election day, for, with the country in its present temper in the matter of armament, if they should give up on the ground that they could not work with the President, his defeat would appear certain. But will he continue to depend upon them in case he is elected...