Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Arm of the Law. In Baltimore, 49 charges of "burglary, attempted burglary and in addition, carrying a deadly weapon were filed against Paul H. Maenhoudt, only four months off the police force...
...redheaded Vice President Walter Reuther who two months ago first disclosed U.A.W.'s strategy of attempting to pick off the motormakers one by one, starting with General Motors. Reuther is in charge of U.A.W.'s G.M. division, and a settlement at Ford would give him a potent weapon in dealing with General Motors. It might also help him in his continued fight with U.A.W.'s left-wing Vice President George Addes. Reuther, with a substantial lead already over Addes, is now attempting to gather the laurels which he hopes will make him successor next year, to U.A.W...
General McClure ran his show from a spacious compound in Kunming, a stone's throw from the terminus of the Burma Road. He bellowed, spark-plugged and steamrollered the Chinese divisions within the C.C.C. from an amorphous lump into a cohesive weapon. He was assisted by such capable officers as Brigadier General George Olmstead, 44, a levelheaded lowan who ran G5; and Brigadier General Paul Caraway, 39, West Point-trained son of Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway and an outstanding planner, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff...
Belts & Millstones. Britons refused to feel guilty about Empire preference trade restrictions. British negotiators in Washington argued that high American tariffs caused Empire preference in the first place and that it was Britain's only weapon for forcing down U.S. trade restrictions in the future...
Scientists did not like the May-Johnson bill's emphasis on secrecy. To them the bill seemed a reflection of the U.S. Army's attitude that the atom was primarily a weapon of war rather than a challenging frontier on the limits of knowledge, to be pushed back for the benefit...