Word: armaments
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...inclined to believe that you really don't want war; you just want the phony boom conditions of a war without actually fighting one . . . Remove the pecuniary profit from your private armament making and we wonder how long your recently acquired international morality would survive...
...have decided to sign a peace treaty . . . this day of Feb. 8, year of 1953," it read. "So be it known that the offended and defended called it off." It listed the table of organization of the new, bigger gang: "Sec. of War, Chief of War Intel., Chief of Armament, Chief of Territory, Spokesman and Comm. of Tactical Opr." It was signed with such gang names as Mousie, Muscles, Rickets, Hypo, Dippy, Slick, Shamus, Big Nick, and Luke the Spook...
Although a member of the Armed Services Committee since 1946, Cole talks as much about disarmament as armament. In 1950, he expressed doubts about the morality of the hydrogen bomb, pointing out that it is a weapon for mass destruction. He also doubted whether it was practical, asked: "Is it worth the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to produce it?" The same year, he introduced a resolution for world disarmament to be directed by the United Nations...
...R.C.A.F. Since Canada has no excess-profits tax, this contract has proved so lucrative that Canadair alone contributed 70% of General Dynamics' gross of $134,500,000 last year (net: $4,900,000). Thus, Jay Hopkins, a man few know, has become boss of a major North American armament complex...
...sing . . . When I asked a friend for an explanation, he answered that America is haunted by two spectres-war and peace . . . Incidentally, a New Yorker who has lived on the fringe of world affairs . . . suggested to me that Japan might be invited to take over Korea . . . 'Japanese armament shares have had a sharp rise,' he said suavely. I make no comment on his statement, but merely put it on the record...