Word: armaments
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...Communists make their own laws, collect their own taxes, issue their own paper money. They are more agrarian reformers than revolutionaries but they are well disciplined. They have developed small cannons out of bored elms. For armament they use captured Japanese guns and when they haven't guns they use spears and clubs. The Soviets send in no aid to them...
...Relatively few"-ten or twelve-.50-caliber machine guns and a 20-mm. cannon are the armament the B-29 carries to fight its way in & out. But the big airplane's remote-control firing system enables the few to do the work of many. It can throw a multi-gunned punch instantly in any direction...
...enough to accommodate both guns and gunner; the job of aiming by hand in a rushing slipstream is taken over by powerful machinery ; the gunner can be warm and comfortable at his work inside the B-29's cabin, insulated from the shock and noise of his rattling armament...
...still a member of the First Baptist Church of Grandview. Mo., although he says he has never been "a very active churchgoer." The Christian Century called him "a religious man." For a while he skipped around on the fringes of Dr. Frank Buchman's Moral Re-Armament movement...
Said one Salvadoran : "What this country needs is to cart every last bit of armament to Acajutla and dump it into...