Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late John Barrymore believed there was only one weapon with which a man could successfully fight a woman-his hat. "Grab it," the Great Profile advised, "and run." Last week, confronted by a spreading strike of telephone switchboard operators, the U.S. knew just what he was talking about. For seven days the nation waited to see if the war's most puzzling domestic problem could be settled that simply. The strike's potentialities were paralyzing. But the women who were picketing the telephone companies were the Good Girls of U.S. industry-the heroines who had stuck by their...
...weeks southern England had been under a bombardment as lurid as something out of an early Wells novel. Both London and Berlin kept the business under wraps. Then, last week, Berlin announced that London was under heavy fire from V2, the second Vergeltungswaffe or "vengeance weapon"-the long-range rocket which Berlin had long threatened and London had long anticipated...
...portable, one-man weapon that fires a whopping 4.5-inch, three-foot-long projectile was described by the Army last week. It is the M-12, a bazooka-like rocket launcher consisting of a factory-loaded plastic tube and tripod, weighing 35 Ibs. in all. A one-shot piece designed for close-range use, it is fired by dry-cell batteries, is replaced forthwith by a new barrel; the empty goes to the rear for a new loading. By a wire hookup, several M-12s can be fired at once by the same gunner...
...held over 100 patents, uncovered in dichlorodifluoromethane (trade name, Freon) a nontoxic, non-inflammable gas that became America's No. 1 refrigerant, later served as a high-priority war weapon for killing tropical insects...
...getting these things, Editor Logan's 14 writers split basically into two camps, choosing roughly between the methods of two famous Negro leaders: conservative, cautious, compromising Booker T. Washington and politically aggressive Frederick Douglass. To followers of the former, "changing public opinion is the mightiest weapon for the Negro's deliverance." To the latter's disciples, the Negro's future task is to give "life, reality and force to [the] social and political principles of freedom ... set forth in the Declaration of Independence...