Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...procurement branches of the Army -Ordnance, Quartermaster Corps, Chemical Warfare Service, Engineers, Medical Corps, Signal Corps, Air Corps-have been linked, since the War, with civilian industries organized under reserve officers, as a measure of national defense. Army experts estimate that ten industrial workers are necessary to supply the needs of each and every uniformed soldier in wartime. Army arsenals would be capable of turning out only 1% of the artillery ammunition required by forces as large as the U.S. had in the field at the 1918 Armistice. The Army Ordnance Association perfects plans for the rapid conversion of private...
...Italy, Charles A. Levine, transatlantic air passenger, sought interviews with the Pope and Benito Mussolini...
...last half was a route. Cavaleiri out through the line to take Garrison's lateral pass out of the air, and then run 45 yards for a touchdown. Hammond scored another, and a few moments before the final whistle blew Fontane run nearly 50 yards for the third in that half...
...bright sunny Sunday morning, June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, accompanied by his morganatic wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, drove down the streets of Sarajevo. Soon a bomb came hurtling through the air, crashing on the roadway behind the royal automobile, exploding with a deafening roar...
...ordinary way of making bricks is to press a mixture of clay, sand and water into forms. Usual size is close to 21¼ x 4 x 8¼ in. Such blocks are dried in the air or in a warm draft. Then they are stacked in a hemispherical kiln usually 30 feet in diameter by 12 feet in height. A yard full of kilns looks quite like a group of dirty red igloos. Their orifices are plugged up and a fire lit under a stout grating upon which the raw bricks are piled. In six to ten days they...