Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yenan's airport, the hinterland city of 40,000 went into a dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have got a ribbon there for everything but Shays's Rebellion...
...National War Labor Board last week mulled over a new minimum wage rate for the U.S. Public members tentatively suggested a new floor of 55? an hour (up from 50?) to correct substandard wage rates in the textile industry. Few were satisfied with this proposal. Industry members of WLB opposed the increase. Labor members offered their own minimum of 72? an hour. And the Textile Workers Union (C.I.O.), which originally asked for the raise, insisted that a 71? raise is needed to bring textile wages more in line with those in other industries...
...vast racket did not by any means involve the great majority of Army personnel engaged in Hump operations (although the Army's failure to give names and figures did not help to correct that impression). But the guilty minority included scores of officers and enlisted men, plus some employes of the China National Aviation Corp., former Flying Tigers, Red Cross workers, and miscellaneous U.S. and British technical and business representatives...
Does all this add up to postwar pilotless cargo planes, shooting through the stratosphere at inhuman speeds and heights? The engineers who have developed the automatic devices think not. They believe that for some time to come it will be necessary for a pilot, to go along to correct the machines' mistakes or inadequacies. But the pilot will not have much else...
Although silicone rubber at present has not enough tensile strength for tires, engineers are confident that eventually they will correct this shortcoming, develop silicone tires that will outlast...