Code name policy of assigning code names intended to give no such clues to the uninitiated. For example, the British counter measures against the V-2 was called "Operation Crossbow". The atomic bomb project centered in New Mexico was called the Manhattan Project, derived from the Manhattan Engineer District which managed the program. The code name for the American A-12 / SR-71 spy plane project, producing the fastest, highest-flying aircraft in the world, was "Oxcart". The American group that planned that country's first ICBM was called the Teapot Committee. Although the word could stand for a menace to shipping (in this case, that
The Criminal Code The Criminal Code The Criminal Code is a 1931 American Pre-Code Hollywood romantic crime drama film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Walter Huston and Phillips Holmes. The screenplay based on a 1929 play of the same name by Martin Flavin was written by Fred Niblo Jr. and Seton I. Miller, who were nominated for Best Adaptation at the 4th Academy Awards. The film is the first of three film adaptations released by Columbia Pictures that adapted from the play "The Criminal Code". It was followed by "Penitentiary" 1938) and "Convicted" (1950). Six years of stress and hard labor working in