Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaullism is something else again. To many & many a Frenchman, especially those inside France, De Gaullism stands for the France that never surrendered, the France that was betrayed by her leaders. General de Gaulle, the individual, derives his strength from the people of France, who are his potent political weapon...
...intensity of aerial at tacks on the harbors, airfields, artillery positions and railways of Sicily and Sardinia steadily increased (see p. 55). Italian and German resistance, particularly in the air, steadily decreased. But softening by air is not conquest. At the weekend, Americans struck at Italy's chief weapon of Mediterranean defense, its navy, with an air attack on three battleships at Spezia. Results: uncertain...
...clipful of .45-caliber pistol slugs, can be fired with fair accuracy at short range (as with any submachine gun, the closer the better). Of all-metal construction, the M-3 weighs less than nine pounds, compared to twelve for the famous Thompson "tommy-gun," a standard Army weapon whose relationship to the humble M3" is approximately that of a chronometer to a dollar watch. (Even in quantity production the Thompson gun costs about $40 to make; the M-3 is fabricated mainly from stamped parts and can be turned out for something less than...
Concealed Weapon. In Cape Town, South Africa, a patient at the Groote Schuur General Hospital complained of a stomachache, felt better after the removal of a ten-inch knife which he guessed had been there ever since a brawl three years before...
...high to protect them selves from unknown costs on unfamiliar products. In many cases the growing volume of orders and the experience gained in manufacture enabled companies to make huge unforeseen savings. In a few cases the contract price was figured on the costs of manufacturing a given weapon in Federal arsenals, and the companies had found ways of making big savings by simplifying designs and improving manufacturing technique...