New International Yearbook: A Compendium of the World's Progress1921 |
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... construction . With all of this however there was confessedly a lack of general demand for aircraft and the natural explanation was that the financial and industrial condition was not such as to warrant large in- vestments in what must ...
... construction . With all of this however there was confessedly a lack of general demand for aircraft and the natural explanation was that the financial and industrial condition was not such as to warrant large in- vestments in what must ...
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... construction of a huge airplane which would carry 300 persons across the At- lantic in about 36 hours . In the plans for this machine due provision was to be made for dining and sleeping accommodations on board . Signor Caproni , during ...
... construction of a huge airplane which would carry 300 persons across the At- lantic in about 36 hours . In the plans for this machine due provision was to be made for dining and sleeping accommodations on board . Signor Caproni , during ...
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... construction was the United States army air- ship , D - 2 , which completed its test at Akron , Ohio , and successfully made the flight from that point to Langley Field via Pittsburgh on Octo- ber 31st , a distance of 444 miles . The ...
... construction was the United States army air- ship , D - 2 , which completed its test at Akron , Ohio , and successfully made the flight from that point to Langley Field via Pittsburgh on Octo- ber 31st , a distance of 444 miles . The ...
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... construction of importance during the year . FINANCE . According to the report of the State auditor for 1920 , the financial situation as follows : Total receipts , $ 12,078,296 ; total expenditures , $ 11,299,607 ; State balance ...
... construction of importance during the year . FINANCE . According to the report of the State auditor for 1920 , the financial situation as follows : Total receipts , $ 12,078,296 ; total expenditures , $ 11,299,607 ; State balance ...
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... construction of the national rail- road . The divided and inefficient Federal control- due to the inattention of Congress and to bureau- cratic methods of administration continued throughout the fiscal year . However the dimin- ished ...
... construction of the national rail- road . The divided and inefficient Federal control- due to the inattention of Congress and to bureau- cratic methods of administration continued throughout the fiscal year . However the dimin- ished ...
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Page 366 - The duties of the War Department General Staff shall be to prepare plans for national defense and the use of the military forces for that purpose, both separately and in conjunction with the naval forces, and for the mobilization of the manhood of the Nation and its material resources in an emergency...
Page 366 - War, the Assistant Secretary of War, under the direction of the Secretary of War, shall be charged with supervision of the procurement of all military supplies and other business of the War Department pertaining thereto and the assurance of adequate provision for the mobilization of materiel and industrial organizations essential to wartime needs.
Page 32 - Tennessee. The bauxite from all localities in the United States, though it may vary in chemical composition, is on the whole similar in general appearance, with the exception of the " granitic bauxite
Page 347 - I ; peeping through window at woman, 1 ; insisting on voting, 1. The states in which lynchings occurred and the number in each state are as follows : Alabama, 7 ; Arkansas, 1 ; California, 3 ; Florida, 7 ; Georgia, 9 ; Illinois...
Page 366 - Corps shall be to prepare plans for the national defense and for the mobilization of the military forces in time of war; to investigate and report upon all questions affecting the efficiency of the Army and its state of preparation for military operations; to render professional aid and assistance to the Secretary of War and to general officers and other superior commanders, and to...
Page 366 - The Organized peace establishment, including the Regular Army, the National Guard and the Organized Reserves, shall include all of those divisions and other military organizations necessary to form the basis for a complete and immediate mobilization for the national defense in the event of a national emergency declared by Congress.
Page 307 - This International Congress of Women expresses its deep regret that the terms of peace proposed at Versailles should so seriously violate the principles upon which alone a just and lasting peace can be secured, and which the democracies of the world had come to accept.
Page 152 - States should become a member of this union. To do so, however, would require not only the abrogation of the typesetting clause, so far as foreign books are concerned, but the abolition as well of the necessity for deposit of copies and registration. American...
Page 366 - The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to maintain, upon military reservations or elsewhere, schools or camps for the military instruction and training, with a view to their appointment as reserve officers...
Page 367 - When Congress shall have authorized the use of the armed land forces of the United States, for any purpose requiring the use of troops in excess of those of the Regular Army...