Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 200 hand-picked Allied officers (and a Yugoslav) watched intently one day last week on Salisbury Plain as Britain demonstrated her prize new .280-cal. rifle. More than simple curiosity was involved: this is the weapon with which Britain hopes to equip not only her own infantrymen (who have been using the bolt-action, single-shot .303-cal. Lee-Enfield since the South African War), but all the North Atlantic Treaty nations. Disagreement over it caused a hitch at the recent small-arms conference in Washington, where Britain's Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell argued...
...Secret Weapon. To get the weapon he needed, Sarnoff prodded RCA, not a nimble organization, into an amazing burst of speed to improve its color system. Last week, in his Radio City Exhibition Hall, Sarnoff put on a demonstration for some 200 radio and television reporters, who saw a 20-minute program starring Nanette Fabray and Singer Yma Sumac on RCA's new color tubes.* There was no blurring or running of colors, even in the fastest movement, e.g., a pair of performing lovebirds flapping their wings. As a show topper, an RCA mobile unit focused on a swimming...
...practice range-finding for gunners. Working from photos, blueprints or handmade models supplied by the armed forces, Comet's 50-man production line is ringed with the same security as many another defense plant. In an emergency, Comet's diemakers have turned out models of a weapon in 72 hours, from drawing board to finished product. At the time the first Walker Bulldog tanks rolled off the Cadillac production line, Comet was working on a whole fleet. Since the Korean war began, business has boomed again...
...most absorbing of the lot. The picture turns the trick in spite of a battleworn plot about a tough-minded commander (Richard Widmark), whose overzealous sense of duty alienates his men (Dana Andrews et al.) until the crisis of battle finally brings them together. Its secret weapon: the work of the Navy's underwater demolition teams, the swimmers who spearheaded U.S. amphibious invasions from Sicily to Okinawa...
Ambassador Peurifoy, in the U.S. on a visit, hastily flew back to Athens, tried again to patch up the quarrel between the country's two foremost men. There was danger that, without Papagos, the U.S.-trained-and-equipped Greek army-an important weapon in the West's defenses against Red aggression-might fall apart...