Word: combat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens would travel on belligerents' ships at their own risk. (Out of the bill was knocked discretionary power for the President to define combat areas and prescribe U. S. ships' and citizens' actions therein...
...yards at Groton, Conn., consults closely on the construction of others in Navy Yards. The Navy found that operations of the air valve and ballast tanks could be interlocked for safety. But it also found that the machinery would be so bulky as to decrease a submarine's combat value, therefore decided (as usual in submarine designing) that military necessity came first...
...analogy the U. S. should long ago have begun distributing decorations to those responsible for most great American accomplishments: businessmen. Now particularly, if Napoleon was right, the U. S. needs great businessmen to combat depression and unemployment. But last week, it was France, not the U. S., which instituted a new decoration: the eight-pointed star of the Order of Commercial Merit, for doers of great business deeds...
...designers. What was now needed, he said, was a bomber that could defend itself against fighters. Since it could no longer outspeed them, its only chance to stay in the air lay in giving it enough maneuverability and fire power to hold its own in aerial combat...
...index of losses for other services: machine gunners (now in the infantry) 70.12; signal corps 16.46; tank corps 15.85; artillery 11.58; engineers 9.15; medical 8.54; cavalry and quartermaster department 3.05 each; aviation and ordnance 1.83. In the World War the ratio of losses for every 1,000 infantrymen in combat was as high as 349.6 killed & wounded in one day of intense attack, more often was no to 150. Guessing for the next war, the U. S. Medical Corps expects 150 daily casualties (24 killed, 96 shot & wounded, 30 gassed) out of every 1,000 infantrymen in action. Whole armies...