Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garand tests, the Army discovered a de fect so serious that a new barrel had to be designed. As of last Feb. 16, the Army had on hand 28,088 Garands with the faulty barrel. It is still getting them (200 a day from its own Springfield Arsenal), will have 35,000 to 40,000 defective Garands in service before tools are in stalled to make the corrected barrel...
...would have had Sweden locked in her room. But another reason for her still unviolated borders may be Sweden's weakness, and until last week this weakness was scarcely suspected outside of Sweden. Adolf Hitler may believe that he can get Sweden's iron and her arsenal, immobilize her Army and her Navy, without firing a shot or crossing a frontier uninvited...
Despite "candling" under X-ray equipment usually used to penetrate and reveal flaws in military armament, the world's oldest known vertebrate egg, discovered by a Harvard expedition, failed to reveal its origin yesterday at the Watertown arsenal...
Week after World War II got under way last September the U. S. Army decided to do something about its gas-mask situation. To bolster its own gas-mask assembly plant at Maryland's Edgewood Arsenal it asked U. S. manufacturers to bid on a new assembly plant to turn out masks for Army use. Winners of three contracts were not among the nine U. S. commercial gas-mask makers. They were Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Firestone Tire & Rub ber Co., and Johnson & Johnson, biggest U. S. surgical-dressing maker...
Police in Buenos Aires were all set for some fancy brawling between the conquering Achilles crew and interned sailors of the Spee, who have the run of the city until midnight, when they must go to their quarters in the naval arsenal. Instead of brawling, the former foes fascinated their hosts by fraternizing warmly in sailors' night spots, swapping stories of their battle, toasting each other...