Word: armaments
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Indication of what other Scandinavians believed they were in for could be found elsewhere than in Copenhagen last week. At the Bofors armament works in Southern Sweden men worked day-&-night shifts building big guns, anti-aircraft weapons, bombs. And outside Stockholm at Aker, Swedish home of gunpowder, poison gas and gas masks, never before had there been such desperate activity...
...anguished cry for action, and for a plan. Maybe America didn't come out of the depression quite as fast as some foreign countries, but it didn't end up in a war as fast, either. If public works are a less vicious shot in the arm than armament programs, and a little slower to take effect, still it is pleasanter to see a man driving over a bridge than bombing one. Undeniably the New Deal has made tremendous social reforms, but Mr. Frank, while admitting their value, still condemns the economic methods by which they were achieved. He makes...
There is le cafard, too, the blues that lonely, tired women get the world over after a long day's work. But the jobs begin again the next morning. How many women are engaged in the French armament industry is a military secret. In the last war there were 400,000. Twenty years of complication and perfection of the sinews of mechanical war cannot have reduced the number...
...hangar walls. And when it came home to roost, at the hangar of Bell Aircraft Corp., it waddled up to the apron on three wheels with its tail in the air, something no pursuit ship had ever done before. More mindful of its deadly speed, its paralyzing armament, than of its spraddle-legged look on the ground, proud Bell Aircraft called it "Airacobra...
...political parties, and for all attitudes towards the war. We must exert our influence to see that strict neutrality is observed without hedging. There must be no loans to belligerents, which might, as in 1917, tend to involve us in war. We must beware of spending huge amounts for armament increases, when all our attention is needed for such pressing domestic problems as unemployment and lack of opportunity for youth...