Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Military aviation is one of San Antonio's biggest industries. Randolph Field, "West Point of the Air," is there. Maury Maverick was for consolidating the Army & Navy's air forces into a third major arm of national defense...
...years ago Señor Foianini engineered expropriation of the Standard Oil Co. of Bolivia's $17,000,000 Bolivian fields. Ranking 28th in the world's 28 major oil-producing countries, Bolivia last year produced only 106,620 barrels (U. S. production: 1,213,254,000). But potentially important oil resources lie in the foothills of the Andes, where, on its 2,500,000 acres, Standard Oil operated six wells on a 55-year contract before expropriation. Last month Senor Foianini arranged two important treaties that made their extensive exploitation possible. Argentina agreed to permit transportation...
...fewer square miles in Europe. Aggrandizer Hitler's Germany does not to date possess Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany's African and Asiatic colonies, but since these accounted for less than 5% of pre-War Germany's export and import trade, they are not the major factors in the altered economic picture...
...whole Germany's agricultural situation is no better and no worse than it was in 1914. But one thing has changed very much for the worse: the fuel oil needs for a modern mechanized army and air service. In the event of a major war Germany will need 15 to 20 million tons of oil a year. The entire annual yield of the nearby Rumanian fields, assuming Germany could and would quickly take Rumania through Hungary, is short of 7,000,-ooo tons and synthetic production in Germany can hardly exceed a million tons. Furthermore, number one truism...
...American Mother of 1939" (her children: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Karl T. Compton; Washington Attorney Wilson M. Compton; University of Chicago Physics Professor Dr. Arthur Compton; Mrs. Herbert Compton Rice, principal of Christian College in Allahabad, India). Grover Aloysius Whalen absented himself long enough to chitchat on Major Bowes's Amateur Hour, received 162 listener-votes as "best amateur," more than 50 of them from California...