Word: armaments
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...Finance Minister, Socialist Premier Blum was uneasily aware that he is the worst possible choice, from the viewpoint of those French and British capitalists from whom France must try to keep on borrowing at the rate of over 30,000,000,000 francs per year, to keep her armament program going. On the other hand, a point in the Cabinet's favor is that pathetic, inexperienced Yvon Delbos is no longer Foreign Minister, has been replaced by veteran Joseph Paul-Boncour, everlasting French delegate to the League of Nations. Like his great friend Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric...
Clustered miserably in the prisoner's dock day after day were four men who, according to the Crown, had been caught red-handed by Miss X. All were once-trusted employes at Woolwich, the chief British arsenal: Albert Williams, armament examiner; George Whomack, assistant foreman of the gun section; C. W. Munday, assistant chemist; and P. E. Glading, only a minor employe at Woolwich, but featured as an important Communist...
...ones. When torpedo boats were invented and again with the development of undersea and aerial weapons, the President said, amateur strategists had declared that battleships were done for. As a professional ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he was still convinced that they were the most effective seagoing armament extant...
...converted from 77 daytime seats, a place at one of the five tables in the dining room. For newlyweds one of the clipper's 15 rooms has been set aside as a "honeymoon suite." Stripped of its passenger gear, the Clipper can carry 20 fighters, eight tons of armament or bombs-no small advantage in the eyes of the U. S. Government experts who will license it after testing...
...what half-a-dozen other Administration spokesmen had been saying for three weeks. But no one had yet been very convincing about the threat which made it a practical necessity for the U. S. to join the rest of the world (excluding The Netherlands and Scandinavia) in the current armament marathon, to take a further step away from the economy of welfare and toward the economy of warfare prevailing in the bankrupt nations of the world...