Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Actually, Congressmen pointed out, if a witness were not a Communist, he had only to say one word, "No." And if a Communist, the word yes would save him, since it is not against the law to be a party member. Certainly the use of the troublesome contempt weapon had increased, but then so had the danger it sought to prevent. Never before had the U.S. been faced with a group of men dedicated to lie or evade at all costs, and unlike the zealots and rebels of past times, unwilling to stand up and be counted...
...Communists lost control of an important political weapon-France's social security system. The purse strings of the French "securite sociale," which last year paid out 426 billion francs ($1.2 billion) to ease the French workers' path from cradle to grave, are held by 234 regional boards. Both workers and employers elect representatives to sit on the boards. Three years ago, France's Communist labor unions managed to elect 60% of the board members. Two weeks ago 5½ million French workers went to the polls to elect new social security representatives. When the returns were counted...
There is a burning desire for freedom in the peoples of Asia . . . With no aid from us, this has produced free nations in India and Indonesia. This desire for freedom is the only effective weapon that exists against oppression, Communistic or any other...
Enemy's Weapon. In Delaware, Ohio, Harry McClellan pleaded guilty to a charge of attacking his wife, Almyra, with a rolling...
...Early this year President Truman authorized the development of the most powerful weapon the world had yet dreamed of, the: 1. Plutonium bomb. 4. Uranium ray. 2. Solium bomb. 5. Hydrogen bomb. 3. Bacteriological bomb...