Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House went conscientious Major O. Lee Bodenhamer, National Commander of the American Legion, to ply the President with dozens of plans for Legion-sponsored reforms...
With Christmas at hand, a picture of the world distribution of U. S. Marines was published last week in the annual report of the No.1 U. S. Marine, Major General Wendell Gushing Neville. In Nicaragua were 1,800, in Haiti 887,* in the Virgin Islands 111, in Guam 572, Philippines 215, Hawaii 395, Shanghai 1,049 Peking 486, not to count the men aboard Navy ships around the world...
Eagerly hockey followers watched to see how the new rules would work out. They found that goals were scored, as had been predicted, in great quantities. One night when five major league games were played in various parts of the U. S. and Canada, 42 goals were scored. Under the old rules there were sometimes less goals scored throughout the league in a night than the number of contests held...
...potential of 103 billion dollars assembled in a Manhattan convention room last week at the annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. That sum is the major amount of life insurance held in the U. S.† In the past year alone, policies totalling 19.8 billions were written. The investments the insurance companies have made with premiums now amount to 17.6 billions...
Roaring westward over the South Atlantic flew a big white biplane, carrying Uruguayan Major Tadeo Larre-Borges, French Lieutenant Leon Challes. They were trying to fly from Seville to Montevideo, Uruguay. One thousand miles from the coast of Brazil, their radio messages stopped coming through. Anxious watchers wondered how long the flyers' 1,400 gallons of gas, 50 gallons of oil, would keep them up, figured on 50 hours. At last, many hours behind schedule, the plane crashed near Maracuja, Rio do Norte, Brazil. Both flyers were slightly injured, the plane wrecked...