Word: armaments
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...opened courses to men with engineering, scientific, or mathematical training to fill the all important ground staff. These men who will also be known as Aviation Cadets and receive a commission as Second Lieutenants in the Army Air Corps at the completion of their training, can enlist in armament, engineering, communications, meteorology and photography...
Production-the job of getting armament built-remains under big, silver-topped William H. Harrison, a genial Irishman who talks out of the side of his mouth like a Brooklyn politician. Blue-eyed Bill Harrison started his career climbing telephone poles for $6 a week, worked up to vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph, got into the defense program by sheer accident. One day in 1940 Bill Knudsen, in search of a construction expert for OPM, called A.T. & T. President Walter Gifford, was switched to Harrison because Gifford was out of town. Harrison took the job, moved...
Purchases-the job of placing armament orders-remains under able Douglas C. MacKeachie, a sharp-eyed Yankee trader who learned how to buy goods cheap and fast as New England manager for A.& P. Scraggly, balding Doug MacKeachie joined the defense program as adviser to the Army Quartermaster Corps, taught the Army many a moneysaving short cut, moved on to OPM as Donald Nelson's assistant...
...executive director. He read it, glanced at his watch, whispered to Vice President Henry Wallace. The two left hurriedly for the White House. There they stayed with the President 50 minutes. When Donald Nelson came out, he had been appointed boss of the world's greatest armament effort. Ten minutes later Press Secretary Stephen T. Early told reporters the big news. It was on the tickers within a minute or two. A bulletin was placed on the great glass-topped desk of William S. Knudsen...
Sumner Welles stepped to the podium. In a long and carefully worded resume of Axis plans, promises and attacks, Sumner Welles explained the U.S. position. Mr. Welles gave figures on U.S. armament production: "45,000 military airplanes in the coming year; some 45,000 tanks; 600 merchant ships. ..." Señor Ruiz Guiñazú ran his finger around his collar...