Word: weapons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Because unions are combinations in potential restraint of trade, indiscriminate application of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to them would raise hob with U. S. Labor. In particular, unions would lose their most potent weapon: the strike...
...secret weapon" with which the German Army was last week out-blasting, outmaneuvering, outdistancing, outflanking and out-fighting the Allies in Flanders and Picardy was a secret only rhetorically. It was no secret to any competent soldier on earth, and had not been since the fall of Poland, that the German nation, sustained by 20 years' hatred for their conquerors and hardened by 20 years in the economic wringer, had by self-denial and deadly concentration built the world's most magnificent military machine in six short years under fanatical Adolf Hitler. For it the war machines...
...Historians, however, would dispute this reasoning. They would say that British propaganda had some influence, though it was small west of the Mississippi, and everywhere only activated those who were already pro-Ally. They would point to the American diplomatic blunders which forced us into war over the only weapon Germany had against the British navy--the submarine, to the unneutral attitude of Wilson, House, Lansing, and other political leaders. Economic interests would be only one of many causes...
...Secret Weapon" used to subdue the Eben Emael fortress north of Liege was said last week by Lieut. Colonel Otto Hesse of the German General Staff, writing in Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, to be a flamethrower which generates 2,000° Centigrade. This heat, blasted into gun ports and ventilators from 70 yards, melts gun muzzles and sears their crews' lungs. With it, claim Nazis, the Maginot Line can be "melted." -General Joffre (whose chef de cabinet was Gamelin) on Sept. 6, 1914 before the battle of the Marne: ". . . . The time for looking backward has passed; every effort must...
...Cross to Lieut. Witzig and seven other flying officers for their "incomparable daring" in taking Eben Emael and certain bridges over the Albert Canal. He promoted Lieut. Witzig to captain. To the inventors of the new Angriffsmittel went greater tribute: real alarm among the Allies lest this unknown new weapon prove a key to unlock the Maginot Line...