Word: armaments
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...tight, well-managed squirearchy whose armament expenditures reach only one-twelfth of its balanced budget, Hungary never ceased to earmark money for the debt payment. Although its partial resumption leaves it a defaulter and thus still ineligible for further U. S. loans under the Johnson Act, consensus was that little Hungary, by stepping up alongside little Finland, had made a shrewd and timely move back toward the U. S. money market...
...Brno factory which manufactures the type of machine guns in question, the "Bren," light as an automatic rifle with unequaled freedom from jamming. The British Army recently adopted the Bren gun, planning to import the patterns and tools for their production in England. But Britain's haste in armament was such that she felt obliged to place large interim orders with the small Brno factory. As a big customer she might well have demanded that small customer Portugal should not be allowed to place an order that would interfere with her deliveries. Since Britain has the least interest...
...shortage of army recruits has long been a catch in Britain's armament plans. Though the air force and navy are fully manned the army last week was 25,000 men shorthanded. Chief reason for this is on the lips of every Tommy-"We don't get enough bleeding pay." As Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arnold Wilson M. P. recently pointed out "army pay in every rank is lower than in the navy or in the air force." The general theory is that a sailor deserves more because he is forced to leave his sweethearts for long periods...
Palestine, slipped back into the House of Commons last week to shotgun it as effectively as he had the Government bill on British armament profiteering, which had to be entirely scrapped and redrafted (TIME, June 28 et ante). In his hunting Mr. Churchill was aided last week by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George and former Colonial Secretary Lieut. Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery. Deftly they put His Majesty's Government on the spot by crying that it was "un-British" to present a bill the effect of which would be for the House of Commons...
...Neville has a tremendous programme of armament to get through- and his role of managing director is well in the Chamberlain tradition. Neville's family were among Birmingham's biggest industrialists. And Neville himself was for years a business man before he became a politician...