Word: antiaircraft
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...materials as France's Comité des Forges and Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Britain's Vickers-Armstrong, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. First companies called before Senator Nye's committee were Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn, (submarines) and Driggs Ordnance & Engineering Co. (antiaircraft guns). Those who expected to hear the cannons roar had to content themselves with a volley of cap pistols. The business ethics of these companies might be low but their volume of trade and general influence in world affairs was even lower. What made their testimony important was that they are primarily...
Died. Hugh Chalmers, 58, oldtime motormaker, onetime president of Chalmers Motor Co. (merged with Chrysler) and Chalkis Manufacturing Co. (antiaircraft guns); of pneumonia; in Beacon...
...being a Coast Artilleryman of the Regular Army, much interested in and having served with the Antiaircraft Artillery, rise to ask two questions...
...interest of maintaining the habitual accuracy of statement employed by TIME, I would suggest that your reporters be instructed to inform themselves regarding the accomplishments of the Antiaircraft Artillery before they make further statements concerning the possibilities of defensive gunfire...
...antiaircraft artillerymen all credit for their accomplishments. But the fact remains that, pending the perfection and installation of multi-barreled machine guns, sound-detection and other defensive devices, the U. S. Navy's opinion is that defense for battleships against attack from the sky, must be in the sky, i. e. by airplanes launched from cruisers, battleships, carriers...