Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present the United States is producing only about half as much per acre as the intensely cultivated European countries, such as England. Denmark, and Belgium. Taking a soldier's ration as the standard, the European countries produce about one soldier's ration from three acres of land. We produce only one ration from six acres today. If we increase our effectiveness of production to the European standard, which is about the limit, we would be able to produce about 170,000,000 soldiers' rations...
...average man or woman, however, does not consume quite so much as a full soldier's ration per year, so that we might make a rough estimate, that the country could support 190,000,000 people with our present living standards. This would mean, of course, that the present rate of production would be increased to the European standard...
...time with the Cherokee Indians. At 20, he began moving on his own account. He joined the Army and served in the War of 1812. At the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, serving as an ensign, he was shot in the thigh with a barbed arrow. He ordered a soldier to pull it out, but the man couldn't, so he drew his pistol and threatened: "If you don't pull it out, I'll shoot you." When it was out he rushed back into the fray...
...pinched their wrinkled ears. Had Fate suddenly peeled a quarter-century away and made them young again? Surely this was not a modern musical adventure, despite its stock of radio and crossword puzzle jests. It was, rather, a curio dug up from the old downtown days. It had a soldier named Bang Bang, an ingenue named Fli Wun, a prince named Cha Ming, bandits named Hi and Lo. It had a plot about a Chinese Princess who fell in love with a voice; the voice kidnaped her and turned out to be a prince. It had a very large chorus...
Justly bewildered observers resented the incoherence of the narrative. Dug from the worried contents as best it can be, it is this: A miner in a West Virginia coal town breaks jail. He bayonets a soldier of the invading companies sent to subdue strike disturbances by martial law. Pursued, he finds momentary safety in a mine shaft and there assaults a little Jewish maiden. He is captured, blinded, hanged. His mother, the girl and her father are clutched by the Ku Klux, rescued by agitators. The murderer returns sightless and amalgamates himself with the girl, about to be a mother...