Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...IMLAY, Major...
Contrary to the popular conception of a pitifully attenuated army, Malin Craig thinks his 163,800 enlisted men are just 16,200 less than enough. His prime concern is not over numbers but over equipment and organization. Major items in this new army's makeup...
...Cavalry has only 9,919 men, 895 officers in 12 horsed regiments, two mechanized regiments. Its new chief is lively Major General John K. Herr, a grey horseman, onetime top-flight polo player, who hates to smell gasoline, does what he can to brake the trend toward mechanization at the cost of horsed units...
...case of small independents and wildcatters, their offices often in their hats, the prospect of drilling and completing a 4,000-foot well, at an estimated cost of $50,000, seems decidedly remote. But to major companies with ample money and equipment, this is no great hardship. By last week, although none would admit as much-or much of anything-these companies looked like the major entrants in the forthcoming race for Cuba's oil: Atlantic Refining's subsidiary, with slightly under 740,000 acres in all provinces except Oriente; Cia Petrolera La Estrella de Cuba, subsidiary...
Sheeler, born in 1883, was in his late 20s when the bravura of Sargent and Chase was superseded by two major influences: 1) realism from New Yorkers Sloan, Bellows and Luks, 2) Cubism from Parisians Braque, Picasso, Duchamp. It is Biographer Rourke's thesis that Charles Sheeler, by conspicuously keeping his head through a wild & woolly period, "submerged" the French abstract influence in native U. S. forms just as "real" as the street scenes of the Realists and more significant. These forms Sheeler found first in the old farmhouses, barns and functional handicraft of Bucks County, Pa., where...