Word: equipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Engineers' plant was in full production last week, turning out enough reflectors to equip the searchlights being manufactured by Sperry Corp. and General Electric. To visiting newsmen the plant, a long, one-story brick building in Cincinnati's suburban Mariemont, looked like the home of a military secret. It is. Behind its windowless walls, under fluorescent lights, its workmen are busy at a reflector-making process about which the Engineers have not even told their pals the British, who buy U.S. searchlights...
...Allis-Chalmers strike, worst labor snarl since the defense program got under way, had them stumped. Still shut tight at week's end, after 52 days of wrangling, was the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee. Gathering dust were $45,000,000 worth of orders for machinery to equip warships, machinery and machine tools needed in shipbuilding, turbogenerators needed for the new smokeless powder plant at Radford, Va. (see p. 21). Like traffic jammed in a narrow street, work was piling up behind the stalled work at Allis-Chalmers. Government officials helplessly beat their breasts...
...Stimson: "The . . . emergency which aggressor nations have created . . . must be met . . . with the flexibility . . . which ample authority . . . alone can afford." The bill would permit the President to send immediately a small but vital supply of weapons from stock. Roosevelt had sent outmoded weapons to Britain to re-equip her Army after the disastrous evacuation from Dunkirk. Said Stimson: "It's very possible we're sitting here quietly today largely because that step was taken...
...Received President Roosevelt's request for $175,000,000 to clothe and equip the Army, which is scheduled to total 1,418,097 men by June...
...assume our obvious task now than to come to it later, sickened, disillusioned, and bankrupted by another war 'for democracy,' 'for free enterprise,' or for any other slogan that may be invented for us by the war makers. Let us stand fast, therefore, by our American heritage, equip ourselves by hard work to improve upon it, and prepare ourselves by discipline and sacrifice to defend it to the last ditch right here in our own waters and on our own ground. Without questioning the sincerity or good intentions of our opponents, we may respectfully suggest to them that they...