Word: million
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this war is a competition in morale is admitted by all statesmen. That moral strength will decide the final and supreme battle is likewise acknowledged. Hence, if American morale has been strengthened, the nation has more reason to be thankful than it has over the knowledge that nearly two million men are now under arms...
...Lecture Hall. "Since the outbreak of the war, we have raised three great loans amounting to more than three billion dollars in ready money, in addition to a like sum in stocks and bonds. Our last loan was not the least successful. We have now more than a million more men under arms than...
...will buy five combat air-planes, or pistols, rifles, and half a million rounds of ammunition for an infantry regiment...
...needed as long as the war lasts, and the supply must be constantly replenished. All collection stations will be kept open indefinitely and the public is urged to form the habit of turning in their new books as soon as they have read them. More than a half-million volumes are needed at once in France and space has already been reserved in transports and freighters to send over thousands of books to Europe every month...
Previous wars ended and left little trace upon the landscape of the Somme Valley. This vaster conflict, fought with a million-fold more destructive weapons, will not rely upon historians for its chronicle; like a geologic epoch, it is blasting into the countryside the ineffaceable record of its vehemence and horror...