Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probable future developments of helium and the Government's program for it. The gas is going to waste in the U. S. at the rate of 500,000,000 cubic feet annually. It occurs as a constituent of the natural gas produced from wells in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas, in Oklahoma and in Kansas. These are, in fact, the only large sources in the world. There is enough gas available to keep filled, ready for service, 200 airships of the size of the navy dirigible Shenandoah. In a very few years airships twice the size...
...Calvin Coolidge: "Accompanied by Assistant Secretary of War Davis, I went to Fort Myer, a cavalry post near Washington, spent half an hour under the instruction of riding experts. The newspapers pointed out that I did some riding in my girlhood days, said that I am expected to accompany the President on his early morning canters when I again master...
...experimenting at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, with light field artilery which is 40 to 50 per cent more powerful than that being used at the close of the World War," said Colonel Frank McIntyre of the United States Field Artillery in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter recently. Colonel McIntyre is assistant to the chief of the United States Field Artillery, the testing headquarters of which are at Ft. Bragg...
...this year than usual. At Winnipeg an average of 2,000 carloads of wheat were inspected every day. A record was made when a train, over a mile in length, groaned under the burden of 185,000 bushels. Some 8,000,000 bushels were shipped from Port Arthur and Fort William in four days. Most of the wheat is sent to Britain...
Died. Joseph T. Swanson, 52, of the Quartermaster Corps, U. S. A., father of Gloria Swanson, cinema actress, at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, Calif., of acute heart disease...