Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slogan seemed to be catching on. It had traveled from mouth to mouth from the moment Candidate John Bricker, cracking at the P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman, used it fortnight ago. Delighted GOPsters played it to a fare-ye-well; perhaps they had hold of a really damaging weapon, a phrase that would turn out to be as telling as "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" proved to be in 1884, or "Turn the rascals...
...vote in favor of the no-strike pledge was a victory for U.A.W. and C.I.O. leaders, but the addition of the referendum showed how deeply American workers are split on the issue. The rank & file is obviously anxious to get back the right to strike, their strongest bargaining weapon, as soon as possible. And the rank-&-filers at the convention were well organized around the Briggs Detroit Local No. 212, which has had 33 wildcat strikes since the first of the year. The chief argument of the rank-&-filers was a paradox: if the union were allowed to strike...
...President Roosevelt's 1944 Santa Claus bag still rests one secret weapon: the possibility of a general wage increase for all U.S. workers...
Unless, somewhere in the last ditch, the beast's groping paws could find still a new weapon, there was no chance of even one final sally. The rocket coast was all but gone and London had promise of peace at last. Now bombers that had blasted at the robomb sites were free to concentrate on Germany...
...Hellcat, the Wildcat fighter, and a halfbrother, the Avenger, a torpedo bomber. The Germans learned to respect them also in the once nip-&-tuck Battle of the Atlantic. With a "now-it-can-be-told" flourish, the Navy has let out the news that the most potent weapon of all against the U-boats were Wildcats, flying from baby flattops, and rocket-firing Avengers. In one six-month period, these planes sent 31 U-boats to the bottom, more than half of the entire total sunk by the Navy in that time...