Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sinclair Oil v. the U. S. (the last civil suit of the oil scandals, about the validity of the Teapot Dome lease...
...since the Civil War had U. S. cavalry engaged in maneuvers on the scale of those conducted last week on 120 square miles of terrain in and about Marfa, Tex. Some 280 officers, 4,000 men, 3,200 horses and 1,500 mules were deployed over gulches, hillocks and sagebrush plains-the Second Cavalry Brigade (Fort Bliss) playing "Brown" army to the "White" army of the First Cavalry Brigade (Fort Clark) and First Cavalry Regiment (Marfa, Tex.). Tanks, cannon, airplanes, Red Cross ambulances and every appurtenance of real war, right down to hot weather, secrecy and red tape, accompanied...
...That civil aviation be directed to economic purposes to the exclusion of military interests...
...Last, but not least, discipline and efficiency have been restored in every branch of the administration, a new spirit of enterprise, hope and confidence has been unchained in the whole country. Great economies have been realized. Fifty per cent of all vacancies in the Army, Navy and Civil Services have been amortized...
...inventor (Peter Cooper), dressed in breeches too bright for a hard-working engineer. After this a proud little ponyish Yorkshire engine that panted first in 1831 puffed slowly down the tracks. The General was there, an engine of the old Western & Atlantic R. R., bearing the scars of Civil War battles-battles in which it had brought powder and shot, in which it had been captured by the Confederates and recaptured by the Boys in Blue. There was a Wells-Fargo express stagecoach which had once carried gold-dust from the San Francisco mining camps. There were, great behemoths...