Word: combat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill creating a National Employment Service. Already passed by the Senate to combat joblessness are bills to create a stabilization board on public works and to compile employment statistics...
...year the disease will be prevalent, the following year rare. In one pair of years in Manhattan the ratio was 20:1. Last year was the low point of the curve; this year is a measles year. Manhattan's public health officials are getting into action, preparing to combat the malady...
...scope of the questions before the committee was larger than the Williams case. Assistant Secretary Ingalls denied that the U. S. was behind other powers in fast combat planes, though the Navy has been experimenting steadily with aircraft, seeking to develop a combination of endurance and reliability with speed. Lack of funds has been a constant handicap. The Navy's request for $3,000,000 to carry on aircraft development has been cut down to $2,000,000 per year for three successive years. In 1929 the Navy's air fleet was given $32,089,000. This year...
...importance of air control in naval combat was last month clearly emphasized in the fleet's maneuvers off Haiti (TIME, March 24). Umpire of that theoretical conflict was Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, whose criticisms of the Navy put him on the "waiting orders" list for months (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927). Scouting planes from the Lexington located the Saratoga and Langley just after daybreak while their flight decks were filled with aircraft. Admiral Magruder ruled that the Lexington planes damaged the Saratoga's flight deck which was later destroyed by bombers from the Lexington. Likewise the Langley...
...death.) If the dogs run a tiger into a cave, Hunter Siemel goes in after it, spear or bayonet in hand. That, he says-for he is a sportsman as well as a businessman-is the finest way to kill a tiger, in hand-to-claw combat. The spear or bayonet must be sharp enough to penetrate the thick, rubbery pelt through which no dog can bite; long enough so that an impaled tiger's claws cannot reach the hunter. The spot to aim for with the bayonet is the breast bone, a not-too-difficult mark after...