Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomber used to pack a 1,000-lb. bomb under each wing for an attack on a troublesome artillery battery could now devastate an army's reserve-supply area. The artillery commander who might have aimed an 8-in. howitzer at a crossroads could now aim a similar weapon, fire an atomic shell and wipe out the heart of a whole infantry division. A Navy torpedo plane could launch an atomic torpedo that could lift a ship out of the water; a destroyer could fire an atomic depth charge that would crush submarines like eggshells...
...steel-helmeted motorized infantry in green armored cars, tanks with Tommy gunners at the ready, air-force officers in new dark blue uniforms, and then the day's showpiece: a huge, gleaming cannon, mounted on a rubber-tired platform, thought by some military observers to be an atomic weapon (one of the "daring discoveries" of Soviet science, said Radio Moscow...
...minefield, our infantry attacks as if it were not there. The losses we get from personnel mines we consider equal to those we would have gotten from machine guns and artillery if the Germans had chosen to defend that particular area." Mass attack was Zhukov's master weapon: massive casualties his expectation...
...residence. Legally he has only a three weeks' lease on 10 Downing Street, but he is counting heavily on a five-year renewal at the general election, May 26. On their side, the Laborites were making plans to blast him right out again. They chose the biggest weapon they could find-the H-bomb, which had come near to blasting Labor's own ranks less than two months ago when Party Leader Clement Attlee and rebellious Nye Bevan fought about it in the House of Commons...
Fine Whipping Boy. For those who raised the cry that the increased automation in new plants will throw people out of work, Ford had a ready answer: "Automation is a perfectly logical, tactical propaganda weapon, for the labor leaders. It's a fine whipping boy . . . [But] let's not kid ourselves . . . that automation is a genuine current issue. It's a grossly inflated issue-as most labor economists well know." From 1950 to 1955, a period of great modernization at Ford, jobs actually increased by 30,000 (up 21%) and wages by more than $381 million...