Word: munitioneer
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The National Defense Mediation Board this week threw up its hands and for the first time admitted defeat. It had shattered its shining lance on a pile of coal. For nearly a month, while operators and miners wrangled, virtually no soft coal had been mined. Emergency supplies had dwindled by...
The bill described defense articles as: any weapon, munition, aircraft, vessel or boat; any machinery for the production, processing, repair, servicing or operation of any article; any component material or part; any other commodity or article for defense. In short: almost anything is a defense article, if the President says...
>A voluminous Dies Committee "Red Paper" reiterated charges of widespread Communism in Labor's ranks, particularly in shipping, communications, transportation, and munition plants, made new charges of Reds in the aircraft industry. Mortimer and Lewis H. Michener, fellow organizers of the Vultee strike, were both accused of being Reds...
Toller had long struggled against the advance of fascism. This drama is an indictment of the oppression of the masses and war. The setting is the strike of Munich munition workers during the last war, but it is generalized to include the larger struggle.
A brilliant soldier, he was sometimes detested by his officers. Kitchener would not speak to him. A fighter by second nature, he was at one time a pacifist by conviction. A Conservative by heredity, he earned the undying hatred of Conservatives for bolting to Lloyd George's Liberals. Twenty...