Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weapon, vitalizing now what must be considered a future base of operations. After the war let's recover our gold from the Japs with compound interest. If air transportation is unavailable, one pack train of gold through Tibet will run the scheme for a year. . . . The possible interest on the investment far exceeds that being obtained in Fort Knox vaults...
...Command in the Middle East-notably Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham. Its essence was the division of air forces into two parts, tactical and strategic. The tactical part, consisting of fighters, fighter-bombers, light and medium bombers, became in effect a weapon of the advancing army; it was used specifically and with terrifying concentration against the enemy army and its retreating and rear elements. The strategic part, consisting of heavy bombers, was used against the enemy's supply lines and extreme rear bases...
Over all federations would be a world government, with executive, legislative and judicial branches, elected by the governments of the federations. Chief duty of the world government: to maintain peace. Its weapon: an army of possibly 2,000,000 men, drawn from all the nations of the world according to a careful mathematical formula...
...revolutionary, an intellectual hobo, a student at Geneva, and an author (The Strange Lives of One Man, 1940). Last week he dictated furiously on his new book, intent on his own version of what the future should be. Some 22% of the army would be used as the first weapon of defense for any country attacked...
...plain-spoken colloquy turned up on The Army Hour (NBC, Sun., 3:30-4:30 p.m.). The "pretty" weapon was a mean-looking steel blade about eight inches long, forged out of the fast disappearing horse shoes of the cavalry. Most U.S. cavalry men have these gougers. They are handy for infighting...