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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fast Tank. The Army sent a wicked-looking military contraption charging over a rough Maryland field and among sand dunes at 42 m. p. h. It was the newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on eight hard-rubber tires. In 14 minutes it was converted into a caterpillar tractor, ready to hurtle its ten tons, its three-man crew, its full armament, cross-country nearly four times as fast as any tank similarly armored had moved before...
Last week President Hoover was still searching for a wheat representative on his Farm Board and having a hard time finding someone satisfactory to the varying shades of political opinion in that major branch of husbandry. When Chairman Legge accepted his appointment, he was in a Kansas wheat field, watching the progress of the harvest, pondering the great problem that lay ahead of his Board...
...farm near Tecumseh, 40 miles from Oklahoma City, lived James Harris. With him one day last week was his brother-in-law, Oscar Lowery. Both under 40, they had been in the Army during the War. Suddenly they looked up to see four men, all armed, coming across the field to the house. . . . When the four men left, Harris and Lowery were dying and the Treasury Department in Washington had another dry shooting on its hands...
Liquor. "My ministers decided that the time has come to investigate the whole field of legislation relating to sale and supply of intoxicating liquor...
Gary Phone. Supreme in the U. S. telephone field is Bell, subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph. Supreme among independent phone companies became the Theodore Gary interests of Kansas City, which last week bought control of Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co. of St. Paul, Dakota Central Telephone Co. of Aberdeen, S. Dak., and eight other companies. Tri-State operates about 165,000 telephones, earns some $1,200,000 per annum, is valued at between...