Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brain Front. Churchill also revealed what Allied airmen have known for some time: that the Germans have brought against U.S. and British bomber formations a new type of weapon - "a sort of rocket-assisted glider which releases its bombs from a height and is directed toward its target by a parent aircraft." He did not add, but London heard, that other "surprises" had been detected in Western Europe's defenses. Clearly, the Prime Minister in his hour of triumph was not forgetting that all the blood and tears have not yet been shed...
...Weapons. To execute the plan in Italy, Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Sir Harold Alexander had chosen a tested weapon-Montgomery's Eighth-and an untried weapon-Clark's Fifth. The Fifth had distinctions of a kind: it was a U.S. Army, with important British units. It was the first U.S. Army of World War II activated abroad. It had trained long and earnestly for seven months in Africa, and some of its units had been tested in Sicily. It had received its final temper in seven days of shock and fire at Salerno. The Fifth had been organized...
...shortage is needlessly complicated by having labor and production balanced by two committees, one run by WPB, one by WMC. But Byrnes, following recommendations by Bernard Baruch (see p. 19), gave them a potent weapon lacking in Buffalo-authority to cancel less essential contracts, if necessary, to create a labor pool and thus funnel the workers into the top priority industry-aircraft...
Allied airmen in Britain gave a perfect and prophetic demonstration of their power. Heavy night bombers, heavy day bombers, night-&-day medium bombers, long-and short-range fighters struck as a single weapon with a single purpose-the invasion of Western Europe...
...links it too closely to Jesse Jones; 2) its grassroots autonomy has led to the appointment of some regional and community chairmen hitherto known as Old Dealers, Republican and Democratic. It is charged that some bitter Roosevelt-hating big shots are more interested in C.E.D. as a potential political weapon than as a potential builder of employment...