... Walter Reed had his greatest assignment to head the Cuban yellow-fever commission. William Gorgas, who used Reed's research on malaria, made the building of the Panama Canal possible. The 20th Century also brought new technologies to the practice of medicine. Women now could enlist in A Nurse Corps. Whereas, during the Civil and Spanish-American War, women were simply civilians under contract, they ... now had the right to be called soldiers. In 1911 with the rise and demand for dentistry, Congress ... Post-Vietnam "peace" brought a reorganization of forces in the military services. Arm...

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... despite these minor contributions would not come for another decade following their independence in the aftermath of World War II. In these stages Cambodia's economy remained strictly non-industrial with fishing, spice cultivation, agriculture and rubber plantations being the major output of their economy. Mostly all the people in Cambodia were ethnic Khmer, who occupied themselves with rice farming and historians ... plan that was unsuccessful for many reasons. The regime depleted the work force in executions of those thought to be enemies of the regime and overworking, mistreating and a...

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