Word: armed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presumably, the purpose of unification was to achieve economy and efficiency in the $15 billion-a-year armed services. But one top Administration economist, watching Louis Johnson's roughshod methods, snorted: "He's made two enemies for every dollar he's saved." In nine weeks he had antagonized: the White House (for his tendency to pop off to the press), the Marines (for privately threatening to disband their air arm), the aviation industry (for canceling other contracts in favor of the B-36), the Navy (for a host of bitterly resented indignities...
...what Louis Johnson ably accomplished in those years is history: building up the puny Army air arm, sending Army officers on a survey tour of 20,000 factories to prepare for war production, placing "educational" orders for war supplies, stumping the country preaching preparedness in more than 400 speeches...
...senior year, Louis Johnson strolled beside the serpentine walks, a mandolin tucked casually under his arm, hatless and sporting the latest in peg-top trousers, the biggest man on campus...
...cowardly attack was repeated in Detroit almost to the last detail. Thirteen months before, an assassin had fired a shotgun through a kitchen window in the home of Vic's elder brother Walter, and shot down the cocky, redheaded president of U.A.W. Walter Reuther's right arm is still crippled from the blast that...
...dying days of 1944, men maimed and crippled by World War II were already being discharged from U.S. service hospitals and returned to civilian life; a war-loan poster bloomed in the land, showing a soldier with empty sleeve holding a little girl in his good arm...