Word: combativeness
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When the weather cleared in the midwest, the Army armada gave Chicago its delayed spectacle: close formation flying, aerobatics, mass combat and attack operations. Then the show moved to its culmination in the East. With only two minor mishaps-one plane forced down, one damaged while landing-the fleet crossed the Appalachian highlands and settled upon five airfields near Manhattan...
...billion-dollar bucket. Coast artillery posts may be chopped but the War Department has up its sleeve as a defense substitute a $100,000,000 program for 14-in. railroad guns firing from 100 shorepoints. Cavalry stations may go but the cost of mechanizing that service with $75,000 "combat cars" instead of horses will wipe out any saving...
...which, bordered with gauche testimonials, used to hang in provincial opera houses, the theatre has always been a form of entertainment reasonably free from extraneous advertising. Less for ethical than for practical reasons the cinema maintained the same policy until about a year ago when, searching shrewd methods to combat Depression, producers hit on the scheme of making short advertising films which were paid for twice-first by the advertisers, second by cinemaddicts who paid to see them as entertainment. The scheme was bound to arouse resentment from other fields which combine advertising with amusement. It received its first public...
...other words the Briand way to combat Zollverein is to offer Germany and Austria something better, perhaps a general European cartel based largely on wheat. To maintain a balanced exchange of wheat and manufactures throughout Europe, the plan provides for a system of reciprocal tariff rebates between those countries which are buyers of wheat and exporters of manufactured goods and those which are exporters of wheat and importers of manufactured goods...
Robert Paine Scripps, "for achieving and maintaining an intrepid, public spirited and carefully informed journalism; . . . for seeing and meeting the need today for an aggressive, constructive liberalism to combat in the interests of that great middle stratum of our American people the domestic and international corruption and injustice which challenge the efficacy of the world's great social structure...