Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glass Polishers. Two years ago Stargazers Porter & Ingalls marched into the Frankford Arsenal with an opportune proposal. The Army desperately needed workmen to make roof prisms for field and anti-aircraft guns and other military instruments. Porter & Ingalls said that amateur telescope-makers, who had years of experience in just such exact work, were eager to take a crack...
...this 495-page book, Historian Myers gives bigotry one of its most strenuous workouts. He puts at the disposal of those who would combat bigotry, and who would preserve merely credulous and ill-informed people from the infection of intolerance, a tremendous arsenal of fact and of reference. Not content with the merely local effects of bigotry, Gustavus Myers moves, with exhaustive industry, in the iceberg depths of precedent and origin-deep into England, deep into ancient Rome...
...What're you doing, trying to take the Watertown Arsenal?" yelled one grinning urchin...
Naples, the Italian port and arms center 190 miles north of Sicily, was such a target, because from Naples flowed much Axis traffic to Sicily. Last week Fortresses and Wellingtons from Doolittle's command laid a belt of flame across Naples' docks, torpedo factory, arsenal and railway yards. In one series of attacks the Wellingtons struck by night, the Fortresses by day. In another and greater raid, ripped the heart of Naples...
Queen Mary will build and boss her own war factory on her estate in Gloucestershire. Said London's Daily Mail: "She decided on this method of personal contribution to the war effort after she had visited dozens of Britain's leading factories. ..." What her little arsenal will make was not announced...