Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experiments in scientific methods for locating ore deposits are being conducted by the Mining Geology department of the Engineering School. The exhaustion of metal resources which can be discovered by unscientific methods makes the development of electrical and geological methods of discovery vital to the future metal supply of the world...
...each and every uniformed soldier in wartime. Army arsenals would be capable of turning out only 1% of the artillery ammunition required by forces as large as the U.S. had in the field at the 1918 Armistice. The Army Ordnance Association perfects plans for the rapid conversion of private metal sheet & tube factories, for example, into shell factories ; keeps such factories' knowledge of shell-making up-to-date; plans for emergency purchases of raw materials; for orderly output and delivery of the finished product...
...review and a horse show. Troopers were paid off and sent back to their stations while officers continued to argue about which "army" had "won." Among other stratagems weighed for merit was that of dyeing white horses brown to camouflage them from aerial observation. Other modern cavalry camouflage: dull metal mountings on harness; dun netting to dull the flash of shiny saddle seats...
...years ago, M. Sensaud de Levaud, French inventor, knew this. Since then, he has been tampering, tinkering, planning, pondering and putting together bits of metal which in final form turn out to be a sensible automotive vehicle with no middle parts to fuss over at all. The motor transmits propulsive force directly to the rear end without intercession of transmission gears...
...Moines we had two delegates from Manila, and one from one of our two camps in China. This time we had none. Why should we not stick our chests out at times and be proud to wear the bronze button, which, by the way, is made from metal taken from the Old U. S. S. Maine. which started the whole dam thing. AUSTIN C. ROWELL...