Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Field artillery has 21,996 men, 1,627 officers in 28 regiments. Its best equipment is second to none in quality but short in quantity. Bulk of its best weapons are French field guns left over from the World War, modernized with new carriages and firing mechanisms...
...that are almost wholly obsolete,'' Major General Lynch wrote in the current Infantry Journal. "There should be no hesitancy in moving at once to a radical revision. . . ." Beneath the static military crust, new tactics, weapons, strategies are in the making. At the Air Corps' experimental Wright Field are such men as Major Carl F. Greene, whose wing designs largely made possible the modern monoplane, whose new pressure cabin is carrying military and commercial aviation into the substratosphere; Capt. Carl J. Crane, whose radio-controlled plane has completed 160 landings without a hand on the controls; Major Edwin...
...servants). A series of telegrams and cables querying every army post confirmed this conclusion, resulted in a marked reduction in the number on dog-duty. At present Mr. Johnson (himself a Lieutenant Colonel of Reserves) is concerned with the army's overgrown list of colonels and generals. The field artillery, for example, has 95 colonels, needs no more than 50. Some system of selective promotion to replace the present seniority method (and incidentally to weed out 7,200 World War holdovers) soon will be presented to Congress, will please even the West Pointers who dislike Louis Johnson...
Flag of Truce. The negotiators in Moscow arranged that the local Soviet and Japanese commanders should meet on the field of battle under a flag of truce and exchange signed copies of a map, showing down to the last yard the positions which they held, so that no cheating could go on during the armistice. On the top of the hill, between a row of Japanese soldiers on one side and Russians on the other, the commanders met and argued from noon to 6:15 p. m. The officers reached a verbal agreement but signed no map at this parley...
...word "churches" broadly, to mean a group of people with a common aim. The Federation's aim, shared by 20,000 people in the U. S., is to apply the principles of the Sermon on the Mount "scientifically" to modern life. The Federation considers the lilies of the field, how they grow, and it accepts Christ's words: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works. To grow like the lily or to shine like the light is to use the "creative essence of the power of God," which everyone possesses...