Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trotsky took precautions. An old Bolshevik, he knew how assassinations are rigged. His house at Coyoacan was an arsenal. Searchlights played on it by night. The Mexican Government provided Trotsky with a 24-hour military guard. He had a private guard of revolver-toting secretaries (one of whom, an American, was kidnaped and murdered during the first attempt against Trotsky). But the assassin, allegedly an agent of the NKVD (Russian Secret Police), arrived in broad daylight, introduced to Trotsky's circle in the guise of a friend. One day as Trotsky sat reading a paper, this friend, Frank Jackson...
...contribution to the team. In a week, the new Kaiser-Frazer Corp. will turn out its contribution, the Kaiser car, made in the same fashion. Both corporations acquired something even more important, a top production man: Edward J. Hunt, the short, square boss of the Chrysler tank arsenal...
...capital, Kalgan has become political and military citadel of the Chinese Communists. Its population (130,000) is almost three times as great as Yenan's. It is the Communists' first industrialized area (coal, iron, electric power, trucks, busses, cigarets, liquors, rubber goods, movies). It is also an arsenal. Left behind by the Japanese, after the Russians chased them out, and obligingly let the Chinese Communists in, was an enormous cache of weapons, including 60 tanks...
...that the Russians had granted permission for Chiang's forces to occupy I) Changchun, Manchuria's capital, 2) Harbin, Northern Manchuria's rail hub, and 3) Dairen, Manchuria's most important harbor, where the Russians have trade rights. With these three cities, plus the Mukden arsenal and metropolis, the National Government would hold the keys to Manchuria's transport and industry...
...record was impressive and well known : as an arsenal of the Empire Canada had produced 16,200 aircraft, 28,000 heavy field and naval guns, 1,500,000 machine guns and rifles, 8,000 ships, 800,000 vehicles, ammunition in the millions of rounds. To turn out these and scores of other items, Canada had doubled pig-iron production, tripled non-ferrous metal production, increased chemical manufacturing 233%. Said Howe with pride: "This unprecedented expansion . . . has resulted in manufacturing becoming the leading industry of the country . . , [and] on a production rather than an assembly basis." Turning to peacetime production...