Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Hitler last week served notice that his submarine campaign is the most dangerous weapon in Germany's armory of defense, and that to beat it the U.S. and Britain must bring their best might & brains to bear. Into the supreme command of the German Navy, succeeding famed old Erich Raeder, moved thin-lipped Admiral Karl Doenitz, whom the Germans call the greatest submarine genius of history...
...partly secret weapon of war looms ominous and ugly against a smoky New Jersey sky, its monstrous steel guts exposed in a 20-story skyscraper without walls. Its immediate purpose: to speed the production of 100-octane aviation gasoline. Its probable destiny: the overthrow of new oil-refining methods that are already growing old (see p. 87). Its proud master: Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey...
...Silk Legs, Summer Bachelors), fired three shots at 53-year-old Lumberman A. Stanwood Murphy as he emerged from San Francisco's swank Pacific Union Club. Murphy high-tailed it for cover, untouched, and Madge gave up quietly. To police, who charged her with assault with a deadly weapon, she explained that she had wanted to scare him, that he had ditched her after his divorce and married somebody else. Released under $500 bail after promising to leave the lumberman alone, she recalled happily: "Boy, did he lose his dignity...
Three magistrates of Brussels reversed a German-enforced incorporation of the town's suburbs in a Greater Antwerp. The Germans had asked for a deferment; when the request was ignored, the judges were arrested. Belgium's judiciary, as it had done 25 years ago,* used the only weapon it had, walked out of the courts in protest...
...grounded in discussion among equals and backed up with the strength and will of the whole. Differing from opinions expressed on the opposite page, we maintain that constructive and active planning now are necessary if we are to obtain that peace. Such planning, we believe, is a powerful potential weapon for our war effort, and a necessary prelude for a lasting peace...