Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airfield ramps, Air Force security is still so tight that comparatively few details have been given out about the new supersonic planes. North American's F-100 is only one of the new jet breed. To date, the U.S. has earmarked some $6 billion for a complete arsenal of century-series jets which Air Forcemen like to call the "city-savers...
That statement in itself represents a remarkable transformation of attitude. One needs only to recall that less than three years ago, its author was apparently ready to believe that Senator McCarthy had stored a private arsenal of Lugers, revolvers, and machine guns in the basement of the Senate office building. Whether Rauh feared at the time that Private Schine, the military member of the McCarthy menagerie, might be preparing to lead a march up the Capitol steps did not become entirely clear from the testimony at the recent Hughes perjury trial in New York City. But the trial revealed that...
...Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., Rees ran into an enemy turned friend. He was a wartime scientist at Peenemünde, where Germans developed their V-25. When Rees asked the scientist if he was at Peenemünde on Aug. 28, 1944, he thought a moment, then cried in a deep accent: "Ach, I sure was! The bombers came, and they hit my house and knocked me out of bed and almost killed me." Rees explained that he was there, too, as a radio-operator-gunner...
Redstone. The Army's most ambitious weapon is the Redstone, a surface-to-surface ballistic rocket designed at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., with the help of 120 German V-2 experts. Led by Wernher von Braun, they have given their new country the biggest rocket that has actually been flown. It is a great, sharp-nosed metal cylinder. In accordance with Army doctrine, it is tough, can stand quick transportation and quick firing from enemy-influenced territory. Tested many times from the monstrous steel tower that sticks up above the scrub palmetto of Cape Canaveral, Fla., the Redstone...
...file of "documents" and diary notes. Among Hughes's fantastic reports was one of a secret White House meeting at which President Eisenhower himself joined McCarthy and other Republican bigwigs to plot Red-hunting strategy. Rauh did not even question Hughes's report that McCarthy kept an arsenal of Lugers and submachine guns in the basement of the Senate Office Building. Rauh testified that he also agreed to pay "expense money" for an agent named Bill Decker...