Word: armaments
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...Army for the way it "overgunned" its tanks (a 75-mm. cannon, a 37-mm. cannon and four .30-caliber machine guns in the Chrysler M3, for instance), the British found that fire power is the first requirement of a tank-eating tank. Their own tanks, whose primary armament consists of the two-pounder gun (approximately the same as the 37-mm. cannon), were no match for German tanks carrying thirteen-pounders (roughly...
...Shoemaker's misgivings are not the first that have been felt about tony Evangelist Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, who has led a series of hit-&-run house-party revivals, known successively as "Buchmanism," "A First Century Christian Fellowship," "The Oxford Group" and "Moral Re-Armament (MRA)." All have a free-&-easy panacea, best summed up in MRA's California drive last year: "You don't join anything, you don't pay anything, the idea is that you begin living the MRA standards...
Neither of the speakers hazarded a guess as to the outcome of the present struggle. The only certain thing, Major Thomas declared, is that there will be no small European nation capable of arming itself when the war is over. Every piece of armament will have to be made by either France, Great Britain, Germany, or Russia. Russia, he added, will become the dominant European power for many years to come if the Nazis are defeated...
Last week, while Burt Wheeler quoted the Navy to the effect that there was no armament available for merchant ships, Admiral Blandy was quietly preparing to supply them. The equipment available ranges from 5-in. guns down through 1.1-in. pom-poms and 20-mm. Oerlikons. Fitting out ships a few at a time, the Navy expects to have over 1,000 armed within four or five months. Armament will depend on the size of the ship: the largest will mount 5-in. guns fore & aft, two 20-mm. guns amidships, 1.1s topside wherever possible; the smallest will mount...
Although no U.S. merchantmen, however wellarmed, bagged anything during the last war, their armament helped to keep subs at a distance. This time, with improved weapons, the Navy expects them to do better than that. Since a fully armed merchant marine would require 10,000 men to serve its guns (crews range in size from eight to 24), it is unlikely that Navy personnel will take over the whole...