Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the British Empire and North Africa, and to a lesser extent from Russia and China, raw materials in increasing quantities are coming into the U.S. To the nation which forged Lend-Lease as a new weapon for war, this busy two-way traffic has posed a new question. Will Lend-Lease form a new basis of world trade in peace...
...President, but by white-thatched Edward R. Stettinius Jr., 43, who ran Lend-Lease from August 1941 until it merged with Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration last September. Now Under Secretary of State, Stettinius this week published a fat, 358-page book, Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory (MacMillan; $3). (Although he signed and sweated over it, the book is actually the joint effort of Stettinius and some 50 others in & out of Lend-Lease, with a final polish by professional writers.) Straightforward, barren of "inside information," the book offers the most comprehensive picture of Lend-Lease to date...
...Nazis' secret weapon is a huge gun which fires massive air bombs (about 40 ft. long, 4 ft. thick), each one twice the length and thickness of a submarine's torpedo. Five or seven rocket installations in the tail keep the projectile going, outer rockets firing in pairs after a large central one has burned out. It is guided to its target by radio, and causes a tremendous explosion when it hits. The rocket gun even has a name: Urania...
Real Stuff. Two facts emerged: 1) the German people have been led to believe implicitly in a secret weapon of vast power; 2) the Germans have built emplacements and installations for some kind of unorthodox weapon along the so-called Invasion Coast of France, and Allied planes are continuously bombing the emplacements...
...Allies' announcement of this not-so-secret weapon was scarcely surprising. The basic principles of jet propulsion have been known for at least 30 years, and experiments of this type have been carried on by the major European powers...