Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came rumbling toward Westminster Abbey the battered gun carriage from which was fired the first British gun that boomed upon the continent of Europe at the opening of the World War. Upon that carriage had later lain the body of the British "Unknown Soldier" as it was borne to rest beneath the white Cenotaph in Whitehall. Last week the unique gun carriage bore not the unknown but the best known British soldier. On the flag which draped the coffin lay Earl Haig's sword, unsheathed, and beside it his Field Marshal's baton and massive white plumed...
...Vimy, Admirals Beatty and Jellicoe, and, symbolically to the fore of the bier, clad in a greenish-brown Belgian uniform, Baron de Ceynick, Field Marshal of the Belgian Army, special representative of King Albert of the Belgians in whose realm was launched the first British attack of the War...
...years after the Civil War American architecture had reached the lowest depths of degeneration. There has been no parallel to the American architecture of that period in all history...
...interest in racing automobiles. With two classmates, he built the BLM cars which experts said were efficient and powerful, but which did not win the Vanderbilt Cup races. Then he studied three years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, learning more about airplanes than art. During the War he was assigned by the Navy to research work in the Aircraft Engine Division, where he produced the three-cylinder, 60-horse-power, air-cooled Lawrance motor. This motor was the forerunner of the famed Wright J5 Whirlwind, designed in 1921, taken over by the Wright Aeronautical Corp...
Previous year, no earnings; losses, $546,123-Devoe & Raynolds Co. (painting and varnishing since the French & Indian War)-$960,123. Previous year...