Word: armaments
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...feet long, are stuffed with 416,000 cubic feet of helium, cruise up to 2,000 miles at 55 m.p.h. Crew totals eight; armament includes machine guns, light cannon, bombs, depth charges. They are less vulnerable than laymen think, since helium is noninflammable. Airplane attack from above would be more or less ineffectual, unless their fire practically sawed off a section of the airship: some blimps can romp home despite a goodly number of bullet holes, despite losing as much as one-third of their gas volume. Such holes are easily patched, even in flight. And if the airplane swings...
...North Dakota, scrapped before the march of naval progress, was a Mississippi scow compared with the U.S.S. Washington, one of the newest battlewagons, with her heavy armor protection for crews above decks (against shell and bomb splinters), her massive armament (topped by nine 16-inchers), her imposing hull and turret armor, her sleek, low-lying speed lines...
...workmen feverishly camouflaging the mammoth dynamite factory so that its colors would blend with those of the freshly plowed Slovak and Hungarian fields. Authorities feared that the R.A.F. might try to repeat its Paris success in Czechoslovakia. In the newspapers Hitler would read about the desperate drive to increase armament production (in some factories it was down to 20% of capacity), but he would know that longer hours might mean more fuseless bombs, more faulty aircraft...
...hour week, Blum declared, had not cut production but had actually in creased it. The delays were due to armament firms, such as Schneider (guns and projectiles) and Renault (tanks), who resisted curbs on profiteering and monopoly...
...Sidney Hillman foresaw jobs for a million skilled women workers in armament plants...