Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metallurgy department students compain that they are forced because of inadequate facilities is Rotch, to trek to the Watertown Arsenal, where they can use the government's plant. The Engineering School furnaces, they complained, would not melt the metal, and according to one there was a lone calibrated graduate for measuring materials. The accuracy of these assertions could not be checked definitely...
Dean Harry E. Clifford of the Engineering School when questioned about the charges of poor laboratory equipment, stated that he believed the facilities adequate and that the Arsenal and the Rindge Technical School, where the shop-work is done, were so well supplied with apparatus, that duplication of their plants by the Engineering School would be pointless. The engines in McKay laboratory, he said were modern enough to be used for instruction in the fundamentals of engineering, and it is that branch that the school attempts to prepare its students
...trade school the most modern equipment is necessary. If it is to concern itself with instruction in the fundamentals of engineering the necessity is not so acute. But a conflict of principle appears in the present set-up of the School. The trips to the Watertown Arsenal are justified on the grounds that in the government's plant the students become acquainted with the very latest developments in the metallurgy and gain essential practical knowledge first-hand. Students on the other hand claim that the work in the Arsenal is mostly manual labor and that the Engineering School is degenerating...
With the way to freedom wide open Dillinger invited fellow prisoners to take it with him. "Go to hell! I wouldn't walk two feet with you," replied his cellmate. Herbert Youngblood, a Negro in for murder, alone accepted. They selected two machine guns from the jail arsenal, and, taking Deputy Ernest Blunk as hostage, went to the jail garage. They could not start the two cars there. Dillinger tore out ignition wires. Once over an eight foot wall, with Blunk between them, Dillinger and Youngblood made their way to a garage whose owner was foreman of the Grand...
...There have been charges in the English Press," he cried, "that Schering-Kahlbaum are a 'secret arsenal.' that we are making poison gas. Preposterous! I invite the Press to come...