Word: armaments
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...United States. An for Mr. Roosevelt, nothing would be loss difficult for him than to force war upon this country if he were interested in doing it. A warship dispatched to Manchuria to see that an American exporter paid duties only to Chinese officials would make an armament boycott ridiculously superfluous...
...world transport must govern the world. As the power of I. A. & A. grew, transcending governments, the idea became a fact, and for 50 years the world lived under an international pax aeronautica. Real and acknowledged world rulers of those days were the twelve Directors of I. A. & A. Armament was permitted only to the I. A. police. Popular government, individual liberty were anachronisms in this sternly centralized system. And though peace & prosperity were everywhere, here & there the old superstition of liberty still lingered on. Individual hotheads got nowhere, however, till young David Knox, greatest scientist of them all, took...
...principal armament of the vessel is nine eight-inch game arranged in three triple gun turrets. The three guns in each turret are in one sleeve and are moved together. These cruisers are the first to carry eight-inch guns of 55 calibre obtaining a range of 34,000 yards, approximately 17 nautical miles and nearly 20 land miles. They fire shells weighing 260 pounds...
...Nations, including our own, shall enter into a binding agreement for a general holiday in all armament construction for the next four years, so as to assure the desired relief through the period of the present depression. Such a holiday would save the American budget $350,000,000 a year, which, for four years would...
...beneficial effect of this armament moratorium would be far greater than the mere saving implied by the annual budget deduction it would make possible. It extends beyond even the stimulus to trade which would result from having our Allied debtors forgive their debtors as we forgive them, and wiping the whole complicated web of inter-governmental obligations starkly from the slate. It would reach even beyond re-establishing the self curative factors which Sir Arthur Salter attests to be the property of all healthy depressions, and which were bound and buried by the enormous extensions of private credit...