Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army says only that gas masks have been supplied to every soldier sent into a potential combat zone. Gas warfare is humane, say the military theorists. As proof, they cite the fact that in World War I gas caused less suffering from wounds than other weapons. Of the 1,300,000 men gassed, only 90,000 were fatalities, and complete recoveries predominated. (Of the 28,000,000 men wounded by other weapons, 8,200,000 died.) And gas is quick and effective, they argue. War's objective is to immobilize the enemy and make him sue for peace. What...
...task force, a varied group of vessels strong enough to carry out a specific job, has become the sea weapon of World War II. Modern naval warfare in the Pacific has kept the slow-footed battleship in port, made the carrier the center of task-force operation, the long-range reconnaissance plane the eyes of the striking force. The airplane has so changed sea warfare that its apostles think they will soon see the day when the plane wall drive the battleship completely from the seas...
...annual report last week. As a corporation, Pan Am earned $3,361,252, a new high; reported a net U.S. Government subsidy of $429,000, a new low. But the report also read like a military communique, for Pan Am is an instrument of U.S. policy and a weapon of global war. Though 38 Pan Am men are Jap prisoners, the news was mostly very good...
...university in its trend toward the ultimate goal of universal higher education. With the war, American colleges are entering upon a third stage which may finally guarantee equal opportunity for all. Government subsidy of higher learning is essential to victory, and thoughtful planning can make such subsidy a potent weapon in a democratic post-war world...
There are some plausible clues that Hitler is planning another Crete in the west: 1) the whole German battle fleet, now a formidable weapon, is assembled between the Hook of Holland and Trondheim, Norway; 2) the British claim (probably extravagantly) that half the fighter strength of the Luftwaffe is drawn up near the invasion coast; 3) Germany's best Field Marshal, Gerd von Rundstedt, has been sent to France; 4) Petain is out and Laval and his Anglophobes are in; 5) British experts say that Germany has been building gliders and transports all winter long. Perhaps these things...