Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When hawks fight, that one wins which can tower fastest and highest to strike from above. Having learned that the same is true of fighting airplanes, the War Department has ordered some "Super-Hawks," capable of towering and fighting as high as man ever flew.* The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co., commissioned to build five "Super-Hawks," last week issued some of their specifications...
...taught a little at West Point. Then he went to Cincinnati, helped adjust some harnesses to the Ohio River. Similar river work on the Tennessee (Muscle Shoals Canal) and a canal near Chattanooga helped him make friends with dams, sluices, locks. Through the Spanish War he served as Chief Engineer in the Porto Rican Army. After planning forts near Newport he joined the General Staff in Washington, where his abilities caught the tiny, twinkling eyes of William Howard Taft. Mr. Taft spoke of him to President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt ordered him to Panama to cut a waterway from the Atlantic...
First Civil Governor of the Canal Zone, acting Quartermaster General during the World War, a member of the War Industries Board, Major Gen. Goethals retired in 1919. He sat in a Wall Street Office and remodeled strange, stubborn places of the earth as a distinguished consulting engineer...
...enlisted and fought in France for the Empire. Gallant, meteoric, he progressed to the Near East, and at barely 17 was made Governor of Zea (Ceos), an Aegean island on which he put down a rebellion, using British-French-Greek troops. Before the War ended he had returned to France, been wounded, then captured. When peace came he inherited $100,000 and tried to settle down. He is one Wilfred Thomas McCartney, British subject, even now barely...
...London Daily Telegraph; Baron Strathcona, Unionist peer; Lieut. Col. George Richard Lane-Fox, up to the last fortnight Undersecretary of State for Mines; the Hon. Edward Cecil Cadogan, author-barrister M. P.; Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite M. P. and the Rt. Hon. Stephen Walsh, Secretary for War in the MacDonald Labor Cabinet. The seventh, their Chairman, the Great Liberal, Sir John Simon, several times a cabinet minister, will sacrifice for each twelvemonth that he neglects his legal practice not less than £30,000. To what end such slavery, such sacrifice...