Word: combativeness
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...Perkins has served as executive officer, engineer, or president of various railways, and as adviser on terminal matters to many cities. During the war he was manager and director of Light Combat Railways for the A. E. F. He is now a Colonel in the Officers Reserve Corps, commanding the 327th Combat Engineers. He has been decorated by the United States with the D.S.M., and by Great Britain with the order of St. Michael and St. George...
...bombing plane flying 170 m.p.h. at an altitude of 15,000 ft. would be over London dropping its bombs just ten minutes after it passed the English coast. Most combat planes now in use would take at least 16 minutes to climb 15,000 ft. from the ground. The Royal Air Force has at least one type of day bomber, the Hawker Hart with a secret steam-cooled engine, capable of a maximum speed of 187 m.p.h. So has France, so has Italy.* To counteract these speedy bombers British planemakers have designed four types of "interceptors," 200 m.p.h. single-seat...
...combat agricultural depression and the hand-to-mouth cash crop system, North Carolina has for months been conducting what its able Governor Oliver Max Gardner calls a "Live-at-Home" campaign. The economic theory behind this program is that the home-living husbandman raises his own food and feed, patronizes local production plants, reduces his dependence upon extrastate sources of supply. A prime feature of the campaign was an essay contest among 800,000 North Carolina school children. Last week Governor Gardner closed the competition by awarding prizes in the House of Representatives...
...political dogfight with two of the loudest snarlers in all Britain: the "Press Lords ' Viscount Rothermere and Baron Beaverbrook, famed "Hearsts of England" (TIME Feb. 10). Tooth and nail they are fighting to tear leadership of the Conservative Party from Mr. Baldwin. Major significance was lent to this combat last week when Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald referred officially...
...racket, says he, is essentially an economic phenomenon: "The racket is but another of the devices the American nation has invented to combat the antimonopoly laws. It should not be considered from any other angle. . . . Its real nature is economic and that truth shall be demonstrated with increasingly frequent force...