Word: combativeness
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...Army Council has recently decided that the D.S.O. can only be awarded for service in action, which means: 1) services under fire: 2) services in connection with air raids, bombardments, or other enemy action which at the time produces conditions equivalent to services in actual combat. Formerly the D.S.O. could be won for an act of great military merit not necessarily performed in the presence of the enemy...
...busses rattled, milk wagons resumed their rounds, markets opened and storekeepers finally raised their steel shutters. After a conference with Ambassador Welles, the Provisional President formed a partial Cabinet, with no Secretary of State. Triumphant members of the ABC, the secret anti-Machado cabal formed three years ago to combat the Porra, received four Cabinet posts, with Dr. Joaquin Martinez Saenz, chief of the A B C, as Secretary of the Treasury...
...Shanghai (TIME. Feb. 1, 1932 et seq.) several million dollars worth of damage was done by Japanese bombing planes. If and when they ever return, China hopes to be ready with a hot reception. Lately 75,000 slant-eyed Shanghai patriots cheered a zipping U. S. Curtiss Hawk combat plane just right for shooting down bombers. While they gasped and squealed, the 700-h.p. ship tore around Shanghai at 200 m.p.h., dived at 350 m.p.h. to annihilate an imaginary bomber and flattened out with a roar like 47 Chinese dragons just above the head of Mayor Wu Techen of Greater...
...range of foreign warships." Ostensibly all China's new Hawks will be Chinese piloted in any fighting which may take place. During the Shanghai battle at least one U. S. pilot, handsome Robert Short of Tacoma, Wash., took up a lone Boeing against six Japanese combat planes, killed one Japanese pilot and was shot down to death in flames (TIME...
General Kundt sent tanks and flame throwers clattering into the Paraguayan shambles. As Bolivian troops poured in. thousands of little brown men fought back & forth in furious hand-to-hand combat. The sun went down and the moon came up. Two outlying Paraguayan forts were raked by merciless Bolivian machine gun fire. Paraguayans, famed as South America's fiercest fighters with bayonet and machete, rallied under the leadership of White Russian commanders, a stiff match for Bolivia's German officers under General Kundt. Soon in the jungle grass 2,000 men lay dead. Above & below Fort Nanawa...