Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week took drastic action. It suspended all Fokker trimotors of the 1929 type from passenger service until experts of the Department and the Fokker company make a thoroughgoing inspection of each craft. Said Assistant Secretary of Commerce Young: "No reflection of any kind upon Fokker aircraft or its basic design or original construction. The only point involved is the actual maintenance of the ships." (Inspection of Fokker wings is difficult because of their plywood construction...
...Sterilization is not a punishment but a protection. It carries no stigma or humiliation. The imbecile mind is criminal and you can't breed it out. Beginning of wrong-doing is hereditary and starts in the secretive actions. By preventing reproduction, one of the basic causes can be cured...
...affirmed with full foundation that military intervention against the U. S. S. R. [Union of Socialist Soviet Republics] was projected by the French General Staff for 1930-31 and sanctioned by the Hoover group in view of the necessity of solving the basic problem of American economics?to market vast stocks of raw materials and raise the prices of agricultural products...
...policy of increased taxation, or at least a return to previous standards, as opposed to federal loans, seems to be a sound one. But Senator Bingham has stressed the psychological argument of public responsibility and neglected the basic financial wisdom of a solution through higher taxation. It is true that if a person is taxed he will be interested in cutting down the national budget, but the chief support of higher taxes lies in the fact that floating loans at this time will not solve the difficulty permanently, and at the same time will increase the annual budget. According...
...feel"' of the plane, basic requisite of flying, is usually imparted to beginners by sending them up in a dual-control plane with an instructor. Last week at Glenn Curtiss airport, N. Y. a new method was introduced, to give students the ''feel" by letting them "fly solo" before leaving the ground. Equipment used: i) a glider mounted to swing in the blast of a fan; 2) an almost wingless "kiwi" or taxiplane which scoots around the field but cannot rise and which has strong hoops in front to protect the tyro if he noses over; 3) an ordinary glider...