Word: rearmaments
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...that its machines are all new. Last week correspondents were proudly shown the newest German airplane factory, at Weiner Neustadt, 30 miles south of Vienna. Like all the factories Göring has built since he took charge of the Four-Year Plan and subordinated everything to aerial rearmament, it is in a sparsely settled region and hard to reach by any of Germany's present enemies. Some of the factories are underground, safe from bombardment. They can turn out bombers, fighters and reconnoitering ships at an estimated rate of 2,300 per month, may keep Germany ahead...
Last January, in its annual report, Atlas Powder Co. revealed that its new TNT plant at Wilmington was booked to capacity-through this year and into the first half of 1941-by rearmament orders of the U. S. Government and others. Last week, in a report to SEC, Atlas revealed how the belligerents have managed to get a preferred place on its TNT order books: $1,427,000 has been lent to Atlas by France and England, interest free, to be used for building a new TNT plant. All its output is to go to the Allies for shells, bombs...
Last week Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring addressed the nation on the subject of Moral Rearmament. He approved it. This surprised only those who think of the Secretary of War as a warlike character. Mr. Woodring is in fact a gentle character who asks only to be left at peace in his job. Said he last week in a speech over a coast-to-coast radio network: "Nations, like men, are their own worst enemies. The menacing might of human selfishness in every country is mankind's chief danger. It is because the war to end selfishness...
These sentiments did credit to Dr. Frank Buchman, who first interested Mr. Woodring (and many another Washington politico) in moral reformation last spring. But, said Harry Woodring after he had finished his speech: "I'm really not a Buchmanite. I think Moral Rearmament is a great, tremendous influence for good, and it ought to be encouraged. I'm very strong for it. But I'm not a convert." Uplifted by a pile of commendatory messages and cablegrams from as far off as Ireland, Mr. Woodring then went back to his business of rearming the U. S. Army...
Under Nazi rule Herr Thyssen became economic dictator of heavy industry, member of the Prussian State Council, a Reichstag member, chairman of a dozen boards. He had no more labor troubles on his hands, since the Nazis suppressed the unions. Rearmament brought millions of marks' worth of orders to the steel mills. The Thyssen empire prospered again...