Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allegations be successfully disproved, that would not draw to Cyril the loyalty evoked from Russians by the sheer, heroic magnitude of the Grand Duke Nicholas. The glory of his early victories, and of his masterly retreat from Warsaw, is not dimmed by the fact that Nicholas II finally withdrew command of the Western Front from the Grand Duke. Stories are still told of the iron discipline which he kept, and of the wise and genuine humanity with which he tempered it. Like Napoleon he was loved because he inspired his men to march and fight to their uttermost, exultant limit...
...command all and singular archbishops, dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, barons, baronets, knights, citizens and burgesses and all our other officers, ministers and subjects that in everything appertaining to the matters aforesaid they be attendant, counseling and helping our said consort, the Queen, and our said counselors, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Baron Hailsham and Stanley Baldwin, as it behooves them...
...they did-300 Command-Aires,† 500 American Eagles, 500 Travel Airs, 200 Swallows. Fairchild and Curtiss made large contracts for plane deliveries. Scarcely was there a plane manufacturer who did not book immediate orders. Kreider-Reisner Challengers were popular,*as were Hamilton Metalplanes, Mohawk Pintos, Monarchs, Mono-coupes, Advance Wacos, and Consolidated Husky Juniors. Customers for the most part were young men. Air transport managers-for Transcontinental, National, Boeing, Western Air Express, Pan-American-examined the huge passenger planes -Fords, Fokkers, Loenings, Boeings, Keystones, Ryans, Stinson-Detroiters...
...Brilliant example of the air industry's swift enterprise. Young R. B. Snowden Jr. of Memphis, Tenn., reorganized Command-Aire, Inc., only last October to make biplanes at Little Rock, Ark., to sell at $3,250. Sales directed at business and college men have made Command-Aire a leader in the industry. *At $2,400 without motor. TIME, Dec. 3, erroneously printed the price as $24,000. †The Gypsy is the third British motor to be made in this country The others: Cirrus, similar to the Gypsy; the Bristol Jupiter air-cooled radial...
...instance, the central office desires to turn on a light or perform some similar operation in a distant power station where Televox has been installed and no human beings are present. The dispatcher at headquarters telephones the substation. Televox answers, the signal is given. Televox caries out the command, and reports that it has been done...