Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After four days of savage combat, General Ely led his general officers into a cinema house at Bordentown, explained what had been done, told them their performance "smacked of military genius." He added that the U. S. should have a trained emergency army of 200,000 in the Second Corps Area for instant military service, bemoaned the fact that the U. S. has no such force...
...summer, without Congress or competition, any Senator who stays in Washington can make news, get publicity. Last week's prime hot-weather newsmaker was Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas. He made four items of news by demanding...
Aviation insurance includes, besides personal accident and life risks, risks against planes, cargoes, airports, public liability, passengers, employes, fires, windstorms, thefts. The usual life or accident policy generally forbids flying. Four Manhattan underwriters predominate in the nation's aviation insurance business-Aero Underwriters Corp., United States Aviation Underwriters, Wm. H. McGee & Co., Associated Aviation Underwriters. The last is the most powerful. Formed last March it groups 13 fire and marine insurance companies and three casualty companies, whose aggregate assets were then...
...founded his U. S. company, that in 1929 it would bring $2,500,000, he would have believed it. He has never lacked self-confidence. In Tsarist days he was his country's foremost aeronautical engineer. He designed the world's first successful multimotored plane (a four-motor job, 1913), flew the first multimotored seaplane (his own design, 1914), enabled the Russians to make the first heavy air bombardments...
Serious to the Royal Family was the condition of Prince George's stomach. Stomach trouble caused him to be transferred four months ago, from the Navy to the more leisurely Foreign Office. Last week by doctor's advice he gave up even this job, retired to the country to rest and diet until the autumn...