Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Department's "Magruder" was plain-spoken Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder who commands only the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The War Department's "Magruder" was really a "Super-Magruder" because he was Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, and topmost soldier of them all. Touring the West to inspect Army stations, General Summerall last week stood up before the San Diego (Calif.) Chamber of Commerce and said: "The housing situation of the Army is a disgrace! Men are living in quarters at Camp Hearn like workers in a logging camp. The same condition prevails at other...
...camps. Author Stevens is an authority on other mythical creatures of North America including lava bears, sand gougers, lightning birds, waumpus cats, treehoppers and minktums (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926, BOOKS). Last week, announcement was made of another Stevens extravaganza, an allegorical U. S. fable entitled "Staggerbear and Guzzlenot" which Plain Talk, the monthly magazine publishing it, condensed for publicity purposes as follows...
...criticisms might have been worse; for General Caldwell admits that it was found advisable "to omit some passages" because the Field Marshal was "so outspoken." And this capacity for plain, frank statements was occompanied by a no less marked habit of blunt, crude speech, so much so that General Caldwell says that "it has been thought desirable to exclude some forcible expressions concerning individuals which find a place in these records...
...clerk was out of them and wrote the thing down on a plain piece of paper...
There is, of course, a great foreign market yet to be exploited. This may keep the two manufacturers from conflicting. But it seems inevitable that plain business competition between Ford motors and Chevrolet (the most profitable unit of G. M. C.) will bring on a battle, even if Ford cars sell at a cheaper level than Chevrolet, and try, thereby, to strike a market all their...