Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who wanted to abolish congressional power to investigate were trying to bore a hole in the boat to let the water out. Since they were first borrowed from the British Parliament, congressional investigations had proved to be a useful weapon. A Senate committee headed by Tom Walsh had uncovered the scandal brewed in Teapot Dome. Out of the Pecora investigation of Wall Street had come the Securities and Exchange Commission; out of the Senate War Investigating Committee had come the exposure of war-profiteering Representative Andy...
Bread was a powerful weapon in the New Comintern's fight on the Marshall Plan. The Soviet Union had already committed itself to distribute 850,000 tons among Eastern European satellites-Czechoslovakia (400,000), Poland (300,000), Finland (150,000)-plus unknown amounts to Rumania and Bulgaria. There were also hints of Soviet grain for France, Belgium, Norway in exchange for industrial machinery...
...Next day PM's Albert Deutsch asked U.N. World Health Organization officials. Their verdict: "The means of propagating cholera make it absolutely unfit as a weapon of bacterial warfare." The Associated Press reported that Russia was sending anti-cholera serum to Egypt...
Education in the U.S.S.R., as the text defines it, "is a weapon for strengthening the Soviet State and the building of a classless society. . . . Communist morality presupposes action and makes struggle obligatory. . . . The pupils of the Soviet school must realize that the feeling of Soviet patriotism is saturated with irreconcilable hatred toward the enemies of socialist society...
Calling the Marshall Plan "the leading weapon in America, the arsenal of capitalism," Sweezy claimed, "The N. A. M. will never change...