Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an Army man says there is too much red tape and delay in the process. Ordnance has an answer: it is not U.S. policy to use troops as guinea pigs; before a weapon is put in their hands, it must be right. It usually is, even if sometimes a little out of date...
...compromise between the lighter, nimbler General Sherman (M4) and the demand for a weapon which could stand up to the Germans' heaviest. Toe-to-toe, the Shermans never could. They had to count on getting around on the Tigers' flanks, where the Germans are more vulnerable. In the kind of confined infighting the U.S. Army ran into four months ago, end runs were seldom possible. The smaller Shermans were badly battered...
...which looked like a good weapon, the Army could take a late bow. But one point still bothered critics: where was the T26 when it was most needed...
Longer Reach. Seldom mentioned but not forgotten was that the greatest political bargaining weapon in U.S. and British hands was Russia's need for credits. Areas of conflict between the Western Powers and the U.S.S.R. lie much nearer to the latter's predominant land power. Credits may extend the bargaining reach of the U.S. and Britain at the peace settlement...
...labor dispute under the Smith-Connally Act-to which he referred as "that grotesque slave statute." Thus he paved the way for a legal strike vote within 30 days, and in so doing turned the act-passed by Congress in anger at the 1943 coal walkouts-into a weapon...