Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This functional friendliness was not the Russians' only weapon. They also put on direct pressure for a merger of the Socialist and Communist parties. Last week, Communist Chairman Wilhelm Pieck set the date: "before May." Fusion would virtually assure a leftwing election victory, solidify Communist control of the Soviet zone...
...each gate. The union protested, but obeyed. In Manhattan, Novelist Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls) formed a committee to raise funds for G.M. strikers, got $35,000 in three days from a heterogeneous list of contributors who agreed with the slogan "Hunger Must Not 'Be a Weapon." The committee promptly began sending the money out to buy food and pay rents. In New York, the city's Welfare Department agreed to aid Western Union strikers who were in need...
...reasons for this mighty experiment confused some people. Scientist W. A. Higinbotham, chairman of the Federation of Atomic Scientists, said he did not "see much object" in the test. But "Spike" Blandy thought his mission was crystal clear: to test a new weapon and to lay the foundation for defense" against it. He explained...
...between Hindu and Moslem sections of the city, tough, stocky Commissioner Harold Edwin Butler's Buttercups (blue-and-yelow uniformed police) tried to bar the way. When paraders squatted on the pavements, the law hurled tear gas. Up came the Hindus with flailing bamboo lathis (traditionally a police weapon against demonstrators). Police lines broke under their charge, scattered Buttercups were beaten. Pop bottles and stones came flying from housetops together with buckets of water. Barricades of flaming trees were thrown across streets. False alarms called firemen to remote sections where gangs of goondas (hooligans) attacked them...
...navies obsolete? Can a single atomic bomb attack destroy a billion-dollar surface fleet? Chronically optimistic airmen (who will drop the bombs) think so. Brassbound Navymen hold that atomic explosives are just another weapon: they may modify but they will not wipe out their seagoing fortresses and flying fields. This week, top Army & Navy ordnance men and atomic bombers were down to the i-dotting stage on plans to settle the question...