Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroad right of way. Hence, the location of bombs was not part of a smuggling plot diverted from Agua Prieta to the east, but a plot to bomb the train of Mexican Federals (due between five and six that morning in Naco) who had been interned at Fort Bliss after the Ciudad Juarez fall and recently released and shipped to Xaco under protest of the Governor of Arizona...
...West Point in 1906, who completes his course this year at the Army War College in Washington, comes to Harvard in September as Professor of Military Science and Tactics, to replace Major L.A. Craig, who has been ordered away. Major Craig goes from Harvard to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to take the regulation army course which prepares officers for staff duties with the larger divisions of the army...
...President Hoover performed a herculean labor by cleaning out of the White Stables. Seven mounts were returned to the cavalry post at Fort Myer, Va. Three Army hostlers went back to regular service. The sum of $15,000 was saved. These White House horses which nobody rode were quartered in the Army quartermaster stables at 19th Street and Virginia Avenue, N. W. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge, in a plain business suit and panama hat, once mounted a black charger named General, cantered through Potomac Park, was duly photographed for the campaign. Never again did he use a live horse...
...bombs. The warming sun fretted men. It softened the sausage of ice in the river. The ice chittered, crumbled, tumbled down the river, leaving the bombers no work to do. Maj. Gen. James Edmond Fechet, Chief of the Air Corps, detailed three bombers and four observation planes to Fort Lincoln, S. Dak., to wait there for shipments of bombs...
Cotton. Five New England cotton mills combined to attack in force their industry's depression. The mills: Valley Falls Co. of Albion, R. I; the Coventry Co. of Coventry, R. I.; Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Co. of Adams, Mass.; the Greylock Mills of North Adams, Mass.; and Fort Dummer Mills of Brattleboro, Vt. Capitalization: about...