Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week WPB's rotund, owlish Chief Donald M. Nelson cautiously peered at reconversion, found it not so frightening. Said Nelson: in the first war stage, the job of U.S. industry was to spew out enormous quantities of every kind of weapon. But the U.S. is now in the second war stage, when emphasis has shifted to the production of special weapons and expanded manufacture of peacetime articles is needed to keep the war machine whirling. Example: farm machinery...
...seemed to be screaming toward us. Something like the sound of a dozen railway trains thrashed overhead, and the slope back of the tanks erupted. Soldiers looked up wide-eyed, and one said: "That must be that six-barreled rocket gun." (Prisoners had told us of this new German weapon, some with six barrels, some with five, on a revolving, electrically driven cylinder, firing five or six rocket shells almost simultaneously.) Our Honey tanks began climbing up the slope toward us, "Goddamn them," said an infantry officer, "why don't they stay down in that draw where they...
...Thurs., 8-8:30 p.m., E.W.T.). Six servicemen (usually chosen from a nearby canteen) are paired off before a telephone in NBC's Manhattan studios. Each pair competes for a pretty girl at the other end of the line. Each man's vocal persuasiveness is his only weapon. Boy cannot see girl, and vice versa. She chooses one of the two, and the three winners take their girls to the Stork Club for a full evening of dining and dancing on the house...
...Weapon to Swing. In the face of this all-out attack, Pan Am's suave President Juan T. Trippe was mum, but not idle. United Air Lines, second largest U.S. domestic line and operator of many an ATC route, had been reported in favor of the new committee. United did not appear at the second session. Then news came that United now favored a policy in which one company "or at the most two or three in different territories" should operate the U.S. share of international airlines...
...secret is General Arnold's dislike of Pan Am's peacetime monopoly. When ATC was set up, he gave domestic U.S. airlines (with little international experience) the lion's share. Thus General Arnold has already built up the weapon to smash Pan Am's grip on world routes...