Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Payoff. Under the tax passed in 1913, a married man with two children and $10,000 a year paid $60. There were a good many complaints. The tax brought in $28 million. As a weapon against the rich, the income tax was little better than a flintlock. In 1902, there were 2,000 U.S. millionaires. In 1920, there were 42,000. There are many more today. Reason: millionaires rarely get to be millionaires by thriftily saving income; they do it through increasing capital values...
...spars and other parts for the planes had not been made by slow machining or welding, as were those in U.S. planes. They had been quickly forged in one big piece, apparently by enormous hydraulic presses that dwarfed any in the world. The big press was a secret production weapon that had enabled the Germans to mass-produce planes in such big quantities...
...Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario houses the first "Cobalt Bomb," medical science's newest weapon against...
Communism last week unsheathed a new political weapon. In Soviet Vienna, 130 metalworkers, carefully selected from Red-ruled unions on both sides of the Iron Curtain, assembled in the "Temple of Workers' Unity" to found by acclamation the "Iron International." Their purpose was to fight a new menace from the U.S. The real enemy of peace, cried Iron Internationalist Giovanni Roveda, delegate from Trieste, is the American "productivity campaign" in Western Europe. According to the Reds, U.S. help to French, Italians and Britons to grow more food, make more steel, mine more coal and grow more prosperous...
...Fashioned Way. In Corpus Christi, Texas, Policeman Tom Goates emptied his pistol at a fugitive, missed, irritably threw the weapon and felled his man with a direct...