Word: reservesâ
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...compensations. I can look back over the period and see the evolution of the Army from a small body of highly specialized Indian fighters, for the most part remote physically and mentally from the great mass of their fellow-citizens, into the Army of today?Regulars, National Guard and Reserves???two-thirds of which are civilians participating in the business, political and social lives of their various communities, but none the less integral factors in the national scheme of defense...
Fame, unsought and perhaps unwelcome, has come to two of the naval petroleum reserves???Teapot Dome and Elk Hills, immortally linked with Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny. These reserves may well be envious of their younger brother, reserve No. 4, which is just about to be explored. Last week a telegram reached the Department of the Interior. It stated that Dr. Philip S. Smith of the Geological Survey had just left Nenana, on the Alaskan Railway, with a dozen men and 140 Eskimo dogs, going out into the unknown...
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