Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>Some 50,000 fully trained young Jews were available in the Holy Land to swell 10,000 Jews already under arms. British troops in Palestine number about 20,000. To cut off German munitions bootlegged to unruly Arabs, the British last year built a wall along the Trans-Jordan border...
When aircraft companies published their reports on the business of 1939's first half, Lockheed's was one of the most interesting. Three of the big makers-Curtiss-Wright, Douglas and North American- showed net profits ranging from 27% to 200% over the first six months of 1938...
Irate mobs did not denounce Joseph Smith as loafer, drunkard, Satan's instrument, until he had refused to tell the hiding place of the golden plates. After they had dug up most of the Palmyra Hill of Cumorah without finding the gold, they drove him out of New York...
*One of the Army's 200 Douglas bombers of this class crashed last week when an engine failed on the take-off at Langley Field, Va. Killed: an entire crew of nine.
Reputation. The War made no big military reputations at the time. "Papa" Joffre was kicked upstairs as early as 1916 and General Foch was bitterly criticized for misjudging enemy strength and strategy. The British high command shifted from Sir John French to Sir Douglas Haig. The Germans fired Moltke, then...