Word: armaments
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...acre plant in addition to accepting a $30,000 Government grant for feasibility studies. And they tapped personal contacts. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Chairman Leland Kalmbach talked to a golfing partner, General Electric Vice President Jack Parker, and got a G.E. commitment to move some of its armament operations to Springfield. Now G.E. has leased the armory shops, hired 1,245 people to turn out M-73 and M-85 machine guns. The Ontario Corp. of Muncie, Ind., rented Springfield shops to make airplane parts, and the Philip Hano Corp. of Holyoke was negotiating last week for space in which...
...ARMAMENT. Unit by unit, ARVN, when Abrams arrived in Viet Nam, was hopelessly outgunned by the enemy-undoubtedly a factor in its lack of aggressiveness. Armed with World War II-vintage M-1 and .30-cal. Brownings, an ARVN company was no match for a Communist company fitted with AK-47 automatic-firing Chinese assault rifles. Long before the decision to move ARVN toward taking over the brunt of the fighting, Abrams fought to rearm the South Vietnamese with the best U.S. weaponry, and the first ARVN units received M-16 rifles late last year. Now the supply will...
...corporation meeting, demands would have been set, real investigations into Harvard's finances would have been made. Since the beginning of the year, we have heard only empty threats of the apocalyptic exposure of complicity, passive grumblings about all that Harvard money in all those armament-makers' coffers (recently even the old red herring of Mississippi Power and Light...
...four hours over a target and withstand hits by small-caliber ground fire on any of its vital parts. Just as important is the fact that-like a Volkswagen-it requires relatively little maintenance and can be outfitted with a new engine in less than an hour. Its normal armament includes two 20-mm. machine guns, plus any combination of the 200 varieties of bombs and missiles in the Navy's air arsenal. In addition, it has an advanced computer system that delivers its projectiles with pinpoint accuracy...
Even as the nation custom tailors new weapons for the particular problems of war in Viet Nam, armament engineers are busily fashioning others to help deter future conflicts. Last week the Pentagon showed off the latest results of both efforts...