Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...punch to stop modern tanks, that at best the gun worked none too well. Even after the Army quietly turned to 75-mm. field pieces for anti-tank work, mounted heavier guns in its newest tanks (to stop enemy tanks), the 37-mm. gun remained the official anti-tank weapon. At last reports the Army was getting twelve 37-mm. guns a month, had 6,500 or more on order (on hand last spring...
...first duties of air power used as a sea weapon are scouting, reconnaissance, keeping touch with the enemy. The Bismarck might never have been sunk had she not been stalked by U.S.-made Consolidated (PBY-5) Catalinas. These flying boats, which have a 104-ft. wing span and weigh 27,080 lb. but are called "sardine tins" by British pilots because of their compactness compared with the monstrous British-built Short Sunderlands, can cruise over 4,000 miles, and last week one of them set a British record by staying in the air for 24 hours...
...favor. It is a deliberate retrogression, an admission of defeat, temporary at least, in the ageless fight for freedom and truth. ... But whereas the case against censorship is overwhelming, there is a case for propaganda-good propaganda, of which the best is the truth . . . Democracy's most potent weapon against all-out totalitarian warfare is, in the most practical sense, all-out truth." Meanwhile last week censorship developments included...
This arrangement, worked out by Jackson and Henderson, was a rebuke to rambunctious Thurman Arnold. For some time Jackson has thought Arnold was getting too nervous a trigger finger, scattering his shot, using the laws to advance his own theories about the danger of monopoly rather than as a weapon to aid defense...
...chosen by the late Sir James Matthew Barrie as the last of a series of heroic examples for his essay, Courage. Last week the British Army in the Mediterranean Theater was engaged in matters far more crucial than the Gallipoli campaign. This sort of courage was the one weapon with which they were adequately stocked-and the man who courageously swam ashore that dark night 26 years ago was last week appointed Commander in Chief of the hottest British spot in the whole area: Crete...