Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since 1922, when Britain granted the 26 southern counties Free State status and set up the six northern counties as a separate Government, every English-hating Irishman has been determined that some day the industrial north and the agricultural south must become one nation. A handful of intransigent nationalists, organized into the Irish Republican Army, have long held that force is the only argument Britain will heed...
...engine builders expected a pat on the back from the Army Air Corps for their performance as of 1939, they were disappointed last week when Major General Henry H. Arnold, baldish Chief of Air Corps, sat down before the House Military Affairs Committee to sketch the needs of the nation's air defenses...
...nation that does know about speeds above 400 miles an hour, and well the Air Corps chief knows it, is Germany. Germany knows the advantages of streamlining engines into wings, and has the engines to do it. German designers already have their eyes set and their designing tools working for a speed of 500 miles an hour. Already its sleek Heinkel 112-U has hit 440 m.p.h. in level flight, and its Messerschmitt log is only a little slower...
...modestly that there were few patent lawyers who were also Democrats). Well-groomed, "black-haired Conway Coe got his first job in the Patent Office when he left Randolph-Macon College in 1918. Studying law on the side, he naturally made patents a specialty, soon became one of the nation's crack patent lawyers, building a tidy practice in Washington...
...other countries, had developed a surplus of farmers, was reported today in the "Harvard Business Review" by Dr. Joseph S. Davis, Director of the Food Research Institute, Stanford University, and formerly Chief Economist of the Federal Farm Board. Dr. Davis presented an analysis of "Agriculture and the Nation's Business...