Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Representatives' committee on national defense investigated. Fifty-two-year-old Mrs. Planas, a willing witness, testified that she had bought the war materials legally from the Philippine Surplus Property Commission last October. But two other witnesses slightly changed the formidable picture of Mrs. Planas as a one-woman arsenal. Said her son Alberto: "My mother is a sick woman. There's really nothing in our depots that the army can use-just a pile of junk." Said her daughter Carmen: "Mother's ... 1,000 tanks are fictitious...
...first big batch of orders since the Korean war was placed last week by the Army Ordnance Department. From Detroit, where the staff of the tank arsenal runs the show for automotive ordnance, contracts went out for tank-type vehicles of the same family as the new light tank to be built by Cadillac (TIME, July 31). American Car & Foundry Co. (Berwick, Pa.) and the Massey-Harris Co. (Racine, Wis.) will build howitzer carriages, the International Harvester Co. (Melrose Park, Ill.) armament personnel carriers, and the Pacific Car & Foundry Co. (Renton, Wash.) gun motor carriages...
...their terms the orders showed the pattern which Ordnance will follow. No prices were fixed. After the companies get into production and establish actual manufacturing costs, final contracts specifying prices will be drawn. Colonel David Crawford, commander of the tank arsenal, guessed that on an order for 1,000 vehicles, for example, the price would be fixed at about the 300th vehicle...
...Fisher bomber plant in Cleveland, which has not been in production since World War II. Moreover, it would take Cadillac nine months, the Army warned, to make its first tank. For the time being, the Army would have to rely on its own $70 million Detroit tank arsenal. The only plant currently producing tanks, it is turning out only a meager twelve a day, half of them the heavy, 48-ton General Patton (see cut). The arsenal last week ordered its single eight-hour shift stepped up to two ten-hour shifts, boosted its orders for air-cooled engines from...
...controversy, General Collins remarked: "We [the ground forces] have also had to operate on limited funds for antiaircraft and for research and development, particularly in the guided-missiles field ... Only day before yesterday, en route from Japan, I stopped at the Army's Detroit tank arsenal for a few hours and saw our proposed changes in tank design. These plans are splendid and show we have the know-how. Only one element is lacking-the money. However, if the funds were made available tomorrow, it would still be two years before new and improved tanks would be in production...