Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe the innocent are punished for the acts of invisible rebels, under the principle of "collective responsibility." Another weapon in the arsenal of terror is the deliberate snuffing out of scholars, on the theory that even nonpolitical scholarship breeds a thirst for freedom. Another is torture. When a German policeman was killed in the Czech mining town of Kladno, the Gestapo tortured the mayor and all members of the municipal council to sweat out the name of the killer. By the time it was learned that it was German soldiers who had killed the German policeman, the mayor had committed...
...Defense Corps includes air-raid wardens, decontamination squads, auxiliary police and firemen, many another defense category. Instructors, mostly city policemen and firemen, now get their training at the Chemical Warfare School, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. So far, out of 5,000 needed, 508 have been trained. Under the new plan, training centers will be expanded to seven. Legionnaires will be selected to attend and establish State schools until each State has at least one. It will be up to the Legion to finance the State schools, add other training centers at all of the Legion's 11,780 posts...
...While he probably meant well, his copy is nevertheless stimulating to those whose patriotic spirit is only as deep as their war paint. These people represent as dangerous an element in the long run as the enemy agents who even now may be planning the sabotage of the Watertown arsenal. And his hysterical arguments will serve only to convince others that our war effort should be devoid of constructive purpose. The present is almost too late for us to begin thinking about a world order after...
Last week some 20 top-flight newspapermen rushed from plant to plant to view the outward evidences of that change. From 9 in the morning until dusk they raced from plant to plant in cars that moved at 70 m.p.h. They grabbed lunch on the way from the tank arsenal to the River Rouge plant. They saw, on the outskirts of Detroit, where a cornfield flourished a few months ago, a tank factory where huge sections of armor plate and steel castings moved down a production line five miles long...
This astronomic increase came out of a Washington confab between the auto makers, the Army & Navy and SPAB. First official announcement came from Chrysler which said it had been asked to triple its tank output (its tank arsenal is already the world's largest), double its output of anti-aircraft guns. One sign of total collaboration-to-come between Detroit and Washington: G.M. created a new War Emergency Committee under Vice Chairman Donaldson Brown, and sent arch-diplomat Dick Grant to Washington for the duration...