Word: divisional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The house where the Brothers Wright lived and worked no longer stands in Dayton. Henry Ford carted it away for his collection of Americana at Dearborn, Mich. But on Dayton's northern outskirts lies a long, lusciously green field named Wright, shaped like an arrowhead, flanked by a long...
General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Corps, officiated at a luncheon for oldtime pilots, the air industry and the press in the administration building at Wright Field. He pinned Distinguished Flying Crosses on four officers,† after General George H. Brett, chief of the Matériel Division, had...
During the next four years he had various field commands and in 1906 he became orderly officer to General Joffre, then commander of the 6th Infantry Division in Paris. In 1912, when Joffre was promoted to the Supreme War Council, Gamelin was chosen as Joffre's chef de cabinet...
At 4:40 on the morning of March 21, 1918, a heavy German bombardment opened a vast offensive designed to break between the French and British armies where they joined in the devastated regions of the Somme. Gas soon shrouded the British batteries and their fire ceased. A little before...
Sportsmen and municipal officials set up such a howl that papermaking States have threatened to crack down on the dumping. Some foresighted paper-mill operators had hired chemists to see whether the waste liquor could be turned to profit. One of the leaders in that move was cagey Marathon Paper...