Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tuberculosis fighters are convinced that the absolute weapon against the disease is only a few million dollars off. Dr. Cassius J. Van Slyke, chief of the PHS research grants division, thinks that $6,000,000 a year for research (instead of the present $500,000) would solve the problem within a few years. Says he: one big push would...
...press, however, the Soviet press's ideological approach to the news takes considerable getting used to. Their press is not a people's press, although it claims to be. It is a party press. The Communist Party owns it, controls it, and uses it both as a weapon and a tactic...
Every war, says Colonel McCutcheon, produces at least one new weapon, which usually appears too late to get in its full effect. The airplane, used in World War I, dominated World War II. The most promising new weapons of World War II were the German V-1 and V2. (The atom bomb, in the military man's book, is not a complete weapon at all, but only a super-explosive, to be lugged to the target by aircraft and perhaps, later, by directed missiles...
...there is no sign of [a crusade] that I can see. . . . As far as an outsider can judge . . . the Vatican is leaning most heavily on its spiritual strength as a defensive weapon, and its faith that evil cannot in the end prevail...
...shooting party" in Boston's Algonquin club last week, Host Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr., president of Johnson Automatics, Inc., introduced his latest "weapon"-an indoor target gun. With it, big (6 ft. 4 in.), handsome Mel Johnson, inventor of the Johnson semi-automatic rifle and machine gun, hopes to bring the rifle range into every home...