Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cannot be too often impressed upon the American people that the progress of the war depends on materials, not on money. We must not confuse loans and taxes, which are the means, with ships and shells and guns and airplanes, which are the ends for which money is raised and appropriated. The people have been generous in the financial support of the Government; since the declaration of war over ten billion dollars has been lent, or paid in the form of taxes, to the Government. Congress has appropriated unstintingly for every object calculated to assist in the prosecution...
...duty by merely being present on the job. High prices for ships, military equipment and munitions have convinced some manufacturers that their obligation is fulfilled by the mere fact that they are in the business. The incentive of competition for customers or employment being removed, producers of the manifold war requirements are spending too much energy in determining the size and distribution of their compensation, too little in making their product equal in value and amount to the enhanced price paid...
...these dangerous deficiencies, which have lately been especially manifest in aircraft and shipbuilding, until our nation realizes that hard work, not money appropriations however vast or intricately distributed and applied, is the only force which can bring into existence the numberless physical products which the prosecution of the war requires...
...University unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will be formally inspected by Captain Austin McC. McDonell, C. A. C., the official representative of the War Department, in the Stadium this afternoon at 3.45 o'clock. The First Battalion will represent the Regiment in today's ceremony and the future status of the Corps in the eyes of the military authorities at Washington rests entirely upon the showing made by the four companies chosen to take part in the inspection. Captain McDonell is under orders not only to inspect the arms and equipment of the men in the Corps...
...third man to be killed is Robert Hogg '05, of Worcester, a graduate of St. Paul's School, where he was an all-around athlete. He enlisted upon the declaration of war last April in the First Corps Cadets, and was promoted to the grade of first sergeant, which rank he held when he fell...