Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison signed contracts with five aviation companies to build 162 U. S. Army airplanes for $5,000,000. When completed as part of the Army's five-year air expansion program, these planes will constitute the largest unit ever added to the U. S. airfleet in peacetime...
...turmoil which preceded the Civil War gave birth to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Born of politics it has remained aware of politics today when its most conspicuous spokesman, Bishop James Cannon Jr., is known throughout the land less as a man of God than as the bitter friend of Prohibition, the sweet foe of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Ontario and the settled portions of Quebec. . . . "Andrew Mellen [sic], Treasurere of the United States [sic], ... is manufacturing and has in storage terrific supplies of poison and irritating gases for military purposes. . . . "Naval armament for the immediate conversions of steel freighters in the Great Lakes into ships of war is in storage in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Duluth. . . . Inordinate supplies of uniforms . . . are in storage in the military posts of the United States Army...
Soviet reports of drought and dry winds following a late spring sowing have again come out of the Volga grain belt. The peasants are said to be worrying not only for their grain but for their potatoes. During the War and the subsequent Revolution when all else failed there were still potatoes to dull hunger-boiled and eaten with the skins...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia sportsman-financier, ordered his two-acre Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Ky., to be converted into a cemetery for the Widener thoroughbred horses. The central monument will be a large statue of Fair Play, sire of famed, fleet Man O' War...