Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building its Army, Navy and Air Force to an active strength of 3,500,000 men-still a far cry from total mobilization. The U.S. must build a great arsenal. "Our stocks of weapons are low. In many cases those on hand are not the most modern." What he recommended was no explosive outpouring of the nation's tremendous industrial power but a steady widening of capacity. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt demanded-and got in 32 months-the miracle of 50,000 planes a year. Harry Truman's program called for a U.S. "capacity to produce...
...effect because the state of war with Germany and Japan has never been ended. The proclamation was intended to be a rallying cry at home and a notice to the rest of the world that the U.S. would once more rise to its calling as democracy's arsenal...
...Crazy Time." Each gang had a president, a vice president, a war counselor who arranged the time & place for gang "rumbles" (wars), and a "light-up" man in charge of the arsenal. The boys spent their time in endless bull sessions at their "hangouts"-a candy store, bar or front stoop. They played hooky, smoked marijuana, stole, carried knives, revolvers and zip guns. They saw nothing shameful in forcing neighborhood girls into sex relations, often with several members of the gang...
Jordan also stated that a more difficult traffic problem is at Arsenal Square (the intersection of Garden Street and Council Avenue) and is still being studied by the State. Under the present setup, the city stations a traffic officer at the square from 8 to 9 a.m. to direct pedestrian crossing...
...Stop" signs were painted at the entry ways to the Arsenal Square intersection last year to head off speeding traffic. Since cars were not observing the stop signs, it was found necessary to revise safety measures...