Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than it had ever been before in peacetime. Aside from its wheat crop, its not-too-good corn crop, and its $231 billion of produced wealth, it had a technology unsurpassed in history. In the atomic bomb-uneasily held-it held title, hopefully exclusive title, to the decisive military weapon. The U.S. had scaled down its once great military establishment, but it had merged its armed services, which promised better military preparation. How long it would take Russian technology to redress the power balance with its own bomb, no U.S. observer could say; estimates ran from two to ten years...
...Army taught thousands of G.I.s-to speak foreign languages-even "unspeakable" ones like Thai. Its secret weapon was a phonograph with made-to-order records. Old-style language teachers scoffed at the Army method, even after the Army method worked. It wasn't the records that brought results; they claimed; it was the intensive, purposeful way the G.I.s studied, and the small-size classes they studied in. But when the Army released the records for civilian use, educators were among those who scrambled to buy them...
Then gadget-minded Bob invented a weapon to help him in his never ending battle to keep the mesquite trees from crowding out the grass on the range. This was a "tree dozer," an oversize tractor with a steel hand to snatch out mesquite. He supplemented this with a "rooter plow" that lifted up a strip of land, killed the mesquite roots and dropped it back with the grass undisturbed. He then turned his hand to grass. Bob's father had brought in South African Rhodes grass. Bob took seed from the best plants, and perfected the strain. Later...
Handy Old Weapon. The only weapon he knew how to use was money. After looking over the field, Maurice concluded that his money would do the most good at the University of Chicago. The university was already spending upwards of $500,000 a year on cancer research. The scientists of several departments, including nuclear physicists who helped develop the atom bomb, had worked out a cooperative program to find cancer's cause & cure...
...Signal Corps did not describe the gadget used to generate the waves. Neither did it tell the military objective of the experiments. The Germans tried with no success to use sound as a military weapon in World War II, but their devices were comparatively crude. The Signal Corps may see some possibility of killing not only mice...