Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willys-Overland are turning out thousands of jeeps, although 37-mm. gun production is still far behind the need. Still newer versions of destroyers are on the way, including a bigger-calibre anti-tank gun which eventually will relegate the 37 to the status of a third-line weapon...
...signing away their right to strike union chiefs argued that they were surrendering the only weapon they had. How could they be sure that management would not try to undercut their membership during the two years of the contract? How could they be sure that A.F. of L., strong among shipworkers on the West Coast, would not begin sniping at C.I.O. in Kearny? They demanded a union shop...
...Economic Defense Board (TIME, Aug. 11) which he heads,* introduced his colleagues to the vast, spraddling economic powers they will wield. Not present was the man who will be the executive at the controls, whose job it will be to use that power as a swift, decisive weapon of warfare...
...Alvin says: "I guess there's plenty of room for two of us as long as he don't go climbin' any poles." ∙ ∙ Racing Driver Kelly Carl Petillo, winner of the Indianapolis speedways in 1935, was charged with "suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon" on a Los Angeles cop. Petillo has two shiners, the cop one. ∙ ∙ Jack Dempsey is making personal appearances with a small-time circus. He referees side-show boxing matches, doubles occasionally as barker. ∙ ∙ After 28 years in Hollywood, 60-year-old Cecil Blount de Mille...
...arriving and establishing themselves in possession of the military objectives. To live and move quickly against the gun requires protection. Armor gives protection in movement. The gasoline engine moves armor. And so we come to what is called mechanization." He also said: ". . . The tank is not a new weapon; the Roman legionnaire with his shield, the armored elephants of Hannibal . . . were in reality tanks using the best motive power then available...