Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaving the state of the Army to Major-General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, who reported conventionally that it was good, and the state of the air to Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, who reported energetically that it was good and getting better, Secretary of War Davis devoted a major portion of his annual report to the state of the Philippine Islands, which the War Department governs. So thoroughly did Secretary Davis cover this subject that it seemed he must long have been girding himself to defend "General Wood's most fitting monument" from being transferred...
...Abolish military, naval and air ministries, as well as general staffs and corps of officers...
...Federal Radio Commission last week decided to eliminate about 300 of the 694 radio broadcasting stations in the U. S. Reason: to clear the air "in public interest." Those will remain who can convince the commission that public convenience, interest or necessity needs them. Last year about 250 new stations opened...
...carry on for posterity. Science, especially chemistry and aviation, has translated the next war into terms of universal destruction. . . . "In man slight and transitory nasal irritation is appreciable after an exposure of five minutes to as little as one part of diphenyl-chloroarsine in two hundred million parts of air. ... A concentration of one part in ten million will probably incapacitate a man within a minute from the pain and distress, and nausea and vomiting accompanying an exposure of from two to three minutes of this concentration. . . . These substances are generally used to cause such sensory irritation that the victim...
There are models of airplanes, airplane engines, and a collection of books and magazines dealing with commercial aviation. England, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Russia, Belgium, Siam, Japan and other foreign countries have contributed time-tables and other printed material dealing with their air services...