Word: weapons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Johnson is a tall, gun-happy young Bostonian who invented a semi-automatic rifle, then outraged the Ordnance Department by insisting out loud that his weapon was better than the Army's Garand rifle (TIME, April 8). The Army arsenal at Springfield, Mass., after many bumbles, last week had Garand production up to 2,300 per week. After a year of agonized effort to tool up for the complex Garand, Winchester Repeating Arms Co. at last was almost ready to begin quantity production. But Ordnance officers were still unhappy about Melvin Johnson...
Last week the eternal secret weapon reappeared in the news. At La Linea, next to Gibraltar, "a strange craft looking like the hybrid offspring of a torpedo and a launch" - ten feet long, equipped with a seat on either side slightly abaft the beam, drawn by a propeller in the nose, gasoline-motivated - was found on the beach. Its motor was still running and its crew had disappeared...
...board, like the Commission, has as yet no administrative powers. But its creation was significant nevertheless. A priorities system is a war government's No. 2 weapon (No. 1: commandeering) for the enforcement of industrial edicts. The forging of the weapon reminded many businessmen of the edicts that may follow. And the edict they fear most is price controls...
...anti-Nazi films are three recent motion pictures: 1. The Mortal Storm; The Man I Married; Pastor Hall. 2. Waterloo Bridge; Fight for Life; Air Death. 3. Foreign Correspondent; To the Victor; Our Town. 4. Grey Legions ; Sky Hawks ; They Drive by Night. 5. After Bismarck; The Secret Weapon...
...Such authenticity is not the hallmark of Knute Rockne-All American. Faithful and respectful as it may be to the Rockne biography, its frequent newsreel shots of Notre Dame at football are filled with chronological inaccuracies such as showing the lateral pass as a potent Army offensive weapon in 1925, goalposts in the end zones in a game supposed to have taken place in 1913. In 1940 spectators with weightier matters on their minds may have a hard time taking seriously for an hour and thirty-eight minutes the Warners' solemn anxieties about the South Bend ball club...