Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After stirring his business audience so, Dr. Jones made them cringe again by showing them two bombs full of blindex, gas invented by Dr. Byron Cassius Goss, onetime lieutenant colonel with the Chemical War Service, now president of the Lake Erie Chemical Co., Cleveland. Said Dr. Jones to the Chicagoans: "I can take this fountain pen gun, discharge it at a man 20 feet away and in the twinkling of an eye he will be blinded for half an hour. I could discharge this large gun and blind everybody in this large ballroom in the fraction of a second...
Major General Amos Alfred Fries, who as Chief of the Chemical War Service should know most of such matters, treated Dr. Jones' alarums as rustlings from a mares' nest. The service, said he, had not asked that news of cacodyl isocyanide be squelched, for it knows nothing...
...Ricaurte (TIME, Dec. 3). He cleared the U. S., the Greater Antilles, Central America. Then two weeks ago he insisted on leading a fleet of welcoming planes into Colon Bay. Overeager to alight, he pitched into the water. Last week his Ricaurte was not yet repaired. The U.S. War Department offered him an Army plane wherewith to complete his voyage. Said Lt. Benny, sharply aware of his flight's significance to his native Colombia: "It was very considerate. However, I shall finish my trip in my own plane...
...pointing their sad morals, the authors have found it unnecessary to call any women to their aid; there are none in the cast and Helen Westley, the charming war-horse of the Theatre Guild, is therefore not called upon to add Wings Over Europe to Major Barbara and Strange Interlude, her present assignments. The male actors are uniformly as good as Guild casts should be, acting the preposterous caricatures of the Cabinet members. Alexander Kirkland is Lightfoot, the worker of wonders...
...exception, of course, was the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. From Moscow had issued orders for war with the Swedish Match Trust in the world's markets. And following the orders came inspired reports that the U.S.S.R. had enlisted both the Japanese trust and the Chinese syndicates as allies. And following the propaganda came Russian matches, in boxes, in crates, in carloads, flooding the markets of Europe...