Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drugstore Market. But the bulky, expensive (total cost: $12.25) four volumes had little attraction for the 5 & 10 and drugstore trade. And the Beards know well that if history as a social weapon is to achieve its highest potency, it must reach that market. When, in 1942, Doubleday Doran's Freeman Lewis began publishing a series of cheap, good, educational books (The New Home Library), the Beards, then in their late 60s, offered to take on the long, gruelling job of writing a new popular U.S. history...
...Secret Weapon...
Sirs: In the latest news of the revolt of German generals in Germany the most significant factor seems to be omitted by every writer and commentator. Pushed into its own territory, Germany had only one hope: of having some extraordinarily effective secret weapon. The revolt of German generals just now after Germany has so jubilantly propagandized the success of their secret robot bomb and more dangerous future secret weapons, shows that German generals, who certainly are in a position to know, openly admit by their revolt that there is no such secret weapon and therefore no hope for Germany. PAUL...
That was only one of the sectors where Adolf Hitler had hoped to use his military intuition to gain time for Germany, to make the Allies wear themselves out, to set the stage for a negotiated peace, perhaps meantime to develop some kind of a devastating new weapon that might still...
This and other such heavy bombings were notice that the Allies take seriously the Nazi promise of a new civilian terror weapon. British censors let pass a commentator's statement that Paul Joseph Goebbels' ecstatic threats about new weapons "may not be sheer propaganda...