Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Westinghouse Electric's shrewd Chairman A. W. Robertson returned to Pittsburgh from Washington saying that mass production of shells, gun mounts, fuse timers, motors and radio equipment (which Westinghouse is able to turn out) would take four to 24 months to organize. In Aviation Curtiss-Wright's Vice President Theodore Paul Wright, analyzing the requirements of President Roosevelt's goal of 50,000 airplanes a year, said that such a rate of production could be reached only after the U. S. has spent five years and $572,000,000 on new plants. These views helped...
...Roosevelt's eyes, but the nation also wanted action on the dramatic scale of the 100 days of 1933. Only a few people expected anti-aircraft guns to sprout from every rooftop, but the U. S. as a whole wanted assurance that industry, finance, labor, politicians would all fuse in a national mobilization for defense...
Nobody knew that an unexploded mine's fuse, jarred by the impact, was at work. Four and a half minutes after the Nazi airmen died, it set off its charge. Next instant there was a crater where the wrecked Heinkel had been. Surrounding houses were smashed flat. A baby carriage hung from a treetop...
Seven times since 1936 the citizens of San Francisco have voted on bond issues which would give them their own distribution system, bring Hetch Hetchy juice from Newark to their own fuse boxes without help from P. G. & E. Seven times they have voted no. Reasons: 1) satisfactory rates and service by P. G. & E., 2) a faithful nucleus of some 25,000 voters who own P. G. & E. stock, 3) anti-municipal ownership propaganda by P. G. & E., 4) the $2,300,000 which P. G. & E. pays the city yearly for its Hetch Hetchy power...
Thereupon Premier Mussolini and Count Ciano punked the fuse of an extraordinary chain of diplomatic firecrackers. Italian envoys popped up all over Europe. Il Duce and his son-in-law played faction against faction, until no nation could be sure whether he was coming or going. At first the Allies were favored. Insulting press attacks on the Allies, particularly on Great Britain, were toned down; so was praise of the Axis. Friendly Giuseppe Bastianini was appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Trade talks with a British delegation were nurtured...