Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sortie by the Germans. In this war, because Germany has few battleships and because the Italian Fleet has proved so impotent, Britain has been able to disperse her Fleet and use much of it in convoy duty. But battleships, with less speed than destroyers, are not a weapon to use against submarines. The use of battleships in convoy is chiefly to keep surface raiders at a distance...
...years the U.S. has tried many a purely defensive measure against Japanese beetles, but last week its first large-scale offensive with hope of success was under way. The offensive was made possible by a newly developed weapon, the Bacillus papillae, which kills grubs under the soil before they turn into the brown-winged green beetles which every summer ravage the Atlantic seaboard from Chesapeake Bay to Long Island Sound...
...defensive, U.S. entomologists worked on sprays, powders and quarantine methods to check the beetle's sweep. But they looked for a better weapon in the beetle's natural parasitic enemies. Strangely enough they found the most promising of these enemies not in Japan but the U.S.-a germ which hitherto had probably lived on native U.S. grubs. Spreading naturally, it would perhaps become a widespread beetle enemy in 50 years...
Sirs: In reference to your article, "Food: A Weapon," TIME, March 31. Leaving Hitler out of this, if possible-what if the farmers of the U.S. should go on a strike for highert wages, shorter working hours, two weeks vacation with pay ? Oh ! My goodness! What am I saying! JAMES E. ALLISON Asheville...
...After thorough tests, the Marine Corps found the Garand unreliable under tough conditions, but TIME is relieved to learn that an Army outfit got faithful performance from this controversial weapon...