Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Critic Simmonds was correct about the feelings of oldtime pilots. In the old days of temperamental engines a good pilot always glided in, a poor pilot flew in. But that criterion has been outmoded by multi-motored ships and by modern engines which once warmed up, do not cut out. Transport operators hoot at the idea of danger in landing under power. They point out that at any moment during a landing, a pilot may need to gun his engines full blast to avoid collision, or to overcome a sudden shift of wind. Unless the engines have been turning over...
...TIME USUALLY ACCURATE HAVE AGAIN SLIPPED A COG STOP SUGGEST YOU EITHER CORRECT YOUR ESTIMATE MY EARNING POWERS OR CONVINCE MR. HEARST TO MEET YOUR TERMS SINCERELY...
...speeches had to be made, one to keep Nazi enthusiasm at the correct state of effervescence, another to pacify foreign opinion. To serve the first, Handsome Adolf made use of his old punching bag, Jewry, not so stupid a move in view of the active anti-Semitism in Austria, Czecho- slovakia, Poland, as it seemed to Britain...
...news coverage. It devoted page after page to the Spanish-American War, was the first to announce that yellow fever had broken out in Cuba. The Sun reporter there had got the news past the censors by using the words Jack Ochre, and Boss Lord's correct interpretation of Jack Ochre as "yellow fever" gave the Sun a major scoop over its bitter enemies, Hearst's Journal and Pulitzer's World. When Munsey bought the Sun in 1916 its reputation for complete news coverage rivaled that of the Times...
...typographically correct temperature of Saturn: minus...