Word: armaments
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...have caused world-wide privation, Unemployment, want, starvation, Trade and industry stagnation; You have caused humiliation, Hatred and recrimination, Anger and denunciation, Vehement expostulation, Armament, war preparation...
...promising future for exchange scholarships presaged by recent developments has, perhaps, a wider significance than the broadening reaction on the individual. In an age of unconvincing anti-war pacts and armament reductions, nothing could aid more toward a peaceful understanding among nations than the intermingling of students in the common pursuit of Knowledge...
...Fokker plant in Teterboro, N. J. a plane nearly identical was being completed with the utmost secrecy. Reporter Bruce Gould of the New York Evening Post, who inadvertently happened upon it while on another mission, reported it to be "[a] pursuit-bomber . . . long nosed . . . rakish . . . bristling with armament;" its two bulging engines giving it a "frightful deep-sea monster expression...
...employer off for Europe on the S. S. Baltic. Newsgatherers, who already had heard rumors that Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone planned a return to Brooklyn (his birthplace) in support of "Little Augie" Pisano, immediately conjectured that Diamond had prepared to contest the alliance by accumulating armament, by leaving the U. S. so as to be away when the shooting began. Among this and other wild, vague reasons given for expecting a Diamond-Capone war the most credible was that the Midwest roadhouse beer trade, lately an unchallenged Capone concession, had been encroached upon by Diamond...
...will be chronicled. Newsy news in connection: the first "endurance"? flight-no refueling ship was then known: in September 1918, U. S. Naval Air Station at Killingholme, England, a N.C. 2, two Liberty-motor flying boat, Curtiss type, built at Naval Aircraft factory, Philadelphia. Four men, oil, fuel, water, armament (machine guns and two bombs), with detonator device fixed, rations and even two carrier pigeons. Total weight: 10,440 Ibs. Flying full-load weight, specially groomed, flew continuously overhead eight hours-record at that time. This experiment was made, and successfully too, for the great effort to bomb Heligoland-Kiel...