Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Edor is a specialist on Colombia. He represents several large Colombian corporations, handling their legal business in this country. He has written a number of volumes on Colombia, notably one in the Scribner South American series published in 1913. The Colombian Government has often employed him in a professional capacity as legal adviser...
...American Association of Manufacturing Chemists is preparing to meet the increased demand for trained chemists which the war will cause by getting in touch with students in colleges and technical schools throughout the country. A great many men will soon be needed in the plants which receive Government contracts for war supplies, and in many other branches of military activity...
Professor J. Bravo Labarca, professor of economics in the Commercial Institute of Valparaiso, Chile, will speak in Emerson J today at 12 o'clock on "The Recent Political and Diplomatic History of Chile." This is one of the lectures on "Spanish-American Countries" which will be given in History...
...investigation conducted by the Scientific American shows that the total mobile force of the United States, regular and militia, amounts to only a little more than 90,000 men. According to the statement of the committee on public safety, the need of men for all branches of military service is urgent, and, although enlisting has been taking place rapidly, many more volunteers are needed to prepare the country adequately for actual warfare. In case of invasion we shall need 380,000 stationary coast guard volunteer troops and 500,000 mobile troops to defend the country from foreign enemies...
...chief of ordnance, has estimated that by June 30 we will have probably only 850,000 rifles and it will undoubtedly be necessary to make changes in existing private plants making rifles for the Allies, as no two European rifles are the same, and all are different from the American rifle. Moreover, it is probable that these plants could not be in working order inside of a year. For the army planned, a billion rounds of small arms ammunition will be needed at the start, and a reserve of double that amount constantly maintained, although there are only...