Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the nation was climbing over another of the terrible humps on its path through the war. The Congress was on its way toward enacting a bill giving the President specific powers to control farm prices and wages-another weapon against the threat of inflation...
...Support. The only weapon of the armored columns that does not live with the formations in the desert is the air support. But an air officer stays with every unit commander to tell him what jobs can be done from the air, the best plan of an attack and the number of planes needed. Once this is decided, the armored commander can talk directly by radio and in plain English with the nearest emergency airfield, which should not be more than ten flying minutes away...
...they buy War Bonds. But they may be overlooking how, where, and when their money is being used. If we don't use the right to vote, which we are fighting to keep, and use it conscientiously, all the War Bonds in the world will be a poor weapon...
...Aberdeen Proving Ground. But the observers don't go through it for the sensation. The craters are measured, the radius of destruction noted (everything within 100 yards is destroyed and a man might be killed at even greater distances). Of primary interest to Army Ordnance is the weapon itself-the number and shape of the fragments from the exploded bomb, the action of the powder charge. All this data is filed so that the science of destruction can be improved...
...pass the physical exam; and besides, the U.S. Army can win without his help. Superman now does his bit by foiling Axis agents, rescuing troop trains and Clippers, smashing sabotage rings. As in the comics, Superman on the air is important to the United Nations-he is Secret Weapon...