Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because they haven't enough workers to go around 40 hours a week. (Latest industries to start operating over 40 hours a week: electrical manufacturing, lumber & millwork, paper & pulp.) Last week too the U. S. Civil Service Commission was scouting for 600 skilled workers for the Frankford (Philadelphia) arsenal. In Ohio, 4,500 production workers will be needed for a new shell-loading plant near Cleveland; at Cincinnati, Wright Aeronautical's new engine plant will shortly be looking for anywhere from 6,000 to 12,000 skilled machinists, other specialty metal tradesmen. This week Federal Security Administrator Paul...
...wooded peninsula northeast of Baltimore, between the Bush and Gunpowder Rivers, is not so peaceful as it looks. Edgewood Arsenal is there. There also is the Army's Chemical Warfare School. Last week 24 National Guard officers reported there to study and practice defenses against war's most forbidding weapon. They joined 24 others in the first National Guard gas class since the Guard was mobilized for a year's field training...
Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Johnson is a tall, gun-happy young Bostonian who invented a semi-automatic rifle, then outraged the Ordnance Department by insisting out loud that his weapon was better than the Army's Garand rifle (TIME, April 8). The Army arsenal at Springfield, Mass., after many bumbles, last week had Garand production up to 2,300 per week. After a year of agonized effort to tool up for the complex Garand, Winchester Repeating Arms Co. at last was almost ready to begin quantity production. But Ordnance officers were still unhappy about Melvin Johnson...
...like it last month (for a plant at Charlestown, Ind.). These contracts were the first moves made by the U. S. Government to increase its pip-squeak peacetime powder supply. All Government powder now comes from three plants - Du Pont and Hercules and the Army's Picatinny Arsenal near Dover, N. J. - and Picatinny is on little more than a laboratory basis...
...they stepped up their pace to 2,500 planes (counting repeaters) and announced a "special'' armada of some 750 planes, steered by crack pilots, to make the first actual attempt on great sprawling London. This armada split, half aiming at the London docks and Woolwich Arsenal on the east, the other half aiming at munitions stores on the city's southwestern edge. They hit the suburbs of Tilbury, North-fleet, Enfield, Barking, Purfleet, killed and maimed an unannounced number of civilians, did small military damage. Captive balloons and a terrific anti-aircraft barrage walled them away from...