Word: equipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from this vantage point that he was able to watch the sweep of events that led to the France-Prussian War. Alfred Krupp saw it coming, too. He like Schneider, was capable of an internationalism far above the confines of narrow patriotism and was anxious to equip Napoleon Ill's armies with his own cannon a suggestion not entirely without its legic or, even, its sportsmanship, for Krupp had borrowed in Paris (from the same banking house of Setlliere as had set Engene Schneider up in business) and the money with which he made the guns that late, humbled France...
...garden projects to keep the starving alive in semi-rural communities, have no more ardent supporter than Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. One of her favorites is for jobless miners at Reedsville, W. Va. Part of the Reedsville project is erection of a factory to make furniture and post-office equipment. Secretary Ickes enthusiastically allocated $525,000 of PWA funds to build and equip a factory to employ 125 men. To provide the factory with work, a provision was popped into the regular Post Office Appropriation bill to operate the factory and take over its output. Last week the House...
...deficit of $139,000,000. Last year it cut this loss down to about $40,000,000. But the return on its invested capital was only 1.8%. Yet during Depression two eastern trunk lines have spent or will shortly spend a sum sufficient to build and equip a system as big as Atlantic Coast Line R.R. New York Central's improvements on Man- hattan's West Side call for a total outlay of $175,000,000. Pennsylvania's great electrification and terminal program is costing...
Experts from Chicago's Field Museum sailed from Manhattan on an expedition to jungly Senegal and Nigeria, where they will track down African mammals, collect rare birds to equip a new hall in the Museum. At Dakar in Senegal they will be joined by the expedition's sponsor, white-haired Sarah Lavanburg Straus, 74, widow of Oscar Solomon Straus, onetime Minister to Turkey, aunt of Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus. No tyro at roughing it, robust Mrs. Straus equipped and led an expedition to Nyasaland and British East Africa in 1929, spent last winter poking about Mayan...
...Atholl Highlanders, numbering about 500 Murraymen, get into their uniforms for great occasions but have no barracks or permanent organization in peacetime. In Wartime the Dukes of Atholl have the feudal right to levy additional troops from the Clan, uniform and equip them. They wear the Murray of Atholl tartan of blue and green squares, divided by thick black bands shot with...