Word: rearmaments
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...rented curling rink. The workers, from Leitz's famed optical works at Wetzlar, began setting up lens-grinders, buffers, drills, in preparation for moving into a new $200,000 factory near by. There they will assemble Leica cameras, photo accessories, special lenses, and aim for a share of rearmament's precision optical orders...
Witness Baruch was ready to agree that the rearmament program must guard against "obsolescence" and strive constantly to improve weapons. But concern with this factor-the bird in the bush-seemed to him to be blotting out the need for the U.S. to build up an overwhelming stockpile of guns and ammunition. Such an arsenal, if occasion arose, could supply peoples everywhere on the long Russian border, help pin down the Soviet armies, contribute decisively to the chances for peace...
...German rearmament seemed to horrify him at first, until he saw that it might be used as a bargaining weapon against the West. The European Army repels him because it confines Germany to military forces inside an international body. Proved anti-Nazi though he is, he talks like any Nazi general in his scorn of the French and Italians as soldiers. "The concept of a European army," says Schumacher, "is a fallacy, because six invalids cannot combine to make one athlete...
Commenting on the report that employers are flooding the University in an effort to find students who can fill the gaps caused by the nation's rearmament program. Clark said, "Only those in scientific fields will probably be able to accept the offers of jobs following graduation...
...four years after starting rearmament, is still without a minimum adequate air defense against atomic attack by the U.S.S.R...