Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands the new weapon which has already shown that it can beat fleets and make great armies impotent. Moreover, the particular air force that he commands will soon be a far greater weapon than any other the world has yet seen. In the course of duty he may have to prove that airpower is still underrated...
...Weapon. In Corsicana, Tex., police charged a man with beating a woman over the head with his wooden...
...picture focuses first on Germany, to show how a modern nation wages war with food as a major weapon. On the home front fats are turned into high explosives for the Wehrmacht's arsenal, apples become alcohol for fuel, releasing high-grade fuel for the Luftwaffe's planes, milk refineries spill out lubricating oil for the submarine fleets. Farmers grow what they are told to grow, and the soybean (twice the strength of meat at a quarter the price) is the armed forces' basic ration. It is mixed into almost every dish the soldiers eat and, Food...
...fast enough to catch their quarry, can wheel about on their heels to follow the squirmings of U-boats below the surface. Their main weapon is the depth charge, to open the enemy's steel-laced seams. They carry a medium-size foredeck gun, a battery of anti-aircraft machine guns...
...anywhere without express authorization of the War Production Board. Primary and only ostensible purpose of the new order was to make sure that no precious shipping space is wasted on imports the U.S. can do without. Secondary but studiously unmentioned result is to give the Government an important new weapon of economic warfare...