Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western's process was developed by its technical department headed by Dr. Fred Olsen, formerly in charge of research at Picatinny Arsenal. Called one of the few basically new ideas since the Chinese invented black powder, the process cuts manufacturing time from a normal 15 days to three...
With Ford organized, the Association next attacked Packard, who has since agreed to talk business. From Packard Keys moved into the Chrysler plants (including the tank arsenal), four plants of the Hudson Motor Car Co., and General Motors. At a recent meeting General Motors' Wilson said to Ray Rausch, Ford superintendent: "The Association may get into your plants, but they won't get into mine." Replied Rausch: "Charlie, they're already in your plants...
Closest Thing Yet. The bigger the U.S. arsenal grew, the more important the Truman Committee became. As the arsenal turned into a modern-day Great Pyramid, most Washington officials still lugged just one stone, and many carried it in the wrong direction...
...naval base at La Spezia. R.A.F. bombers by night, U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators by day, flew over western Europe. They gave Hamburg its 95th plastering. They roared through the valley of the Ruhr. They swarmed over the U-boat base at Lorient, where ten acres of the naval arsenal have now been reported destroyed. Apparently unable to pierce the eleven-foot roofs of the concrete sub pens, the Allied bombers have concentrated on softer targets which are vital to maintenance and repair. Result: 75% of Lorient's headquarters buildings have been wrecked; shops, foundries, warehouses have been knocked...
Quietest weapons in the U.S. arsenal are the plug, snap and ring gauges which make possible mass production by guaranteeing the accuracy that permits interchangeable parts. Plug gauges, for checking inside diameters, are accurate cylinders frequently with go and no go ends.* One form of snap gauge looks like the letter C and external dimensions are checked in its fixed opening. Ring gauges look like the letter O, are often used in go and no go sets for checking the external diameters of rods, gun barrels and the like...