Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plainly, something was gravely wrong at the Detroit Arsenal, the biggest tank manufacturer in the U.S. During World War II, in an 18-month period, Chrysler had not only built the plant from the ground up, but turned out 729 completed tanks.* Yet in 18 months of Korean war, the Army Ordnance Department, starting with a fully equipped plant, had turned out far fewer tanks. Last week Secretary of the Army Frank Pace Jr. took drastic action to set things right: he announced that he is taking the plant away from Army Ordnance and turning it over to Chrysler...
...front line he talked of is one of the richest areas in Asia-Manchuria. In the 2½ years since Mao Tse-tung's Communists captured China, it has become Red China's breadbasket, industrial heart and political bellwether. It is also the arsenal, supply depot and staging area for Chinese armies in Korea, and the constantly expanding haven of the 1,500-plane Red Chinese air force which hovers buzzard-like over the stalemate in Korea...
...implications of the revolutionary combination of jet air power, atomic weapons and electronic controls. The fact that there is now a plan calculated to reassert U.S. power is primarily a result of the Air Force's fierce campaign for recognition of its new, predominant position in the U.S. arsenal...
...Newcastle United, Britain's Football Association Challenge Cup, over Arsenal, io; in London. Some 100,000, including Prime Minister Winston Churchill, jammed Wembley Stadium for Britain's World Series final...
...face of such nuclear juggernauts, can civilization survive a totalitarian onslaught? Dr. Bush is optimistic. Another great war need not come, he says, if democracy stocks its arsenal of preparedness -and its arsenal of liberty. The mightiest of modern arms, Dr. Bush concludes, cannot crush free men armed with the resourcefulness and ideals of democracy...