Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principal watchdog in the house of freedom, the U.S. press feels free to bark at anybody. And critics who call it to heel can expect to get bitten. As a result, thought Managing Editor James S. Pope of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the press is spoiled: in its daily performance there is much to criticize, but there is little sound criticism of the press. Last week Editor Pope went recruiting for knowing critics...
...ramjet helicopter* through its paces for the U.S. Air Force. In test flights, the 310-lb. "flying bike" readily lifted an additional 300 Ibs. and attained a speed of 50 m.p.h. To the Air Force, it looked like just the thing for short-range observation work, artillery spotting and courier service. ¶ At San Diego, Consolidated Vultee's experimental "flying auto" made its first test flight, circling the city for an hour and 18 minutes. The plane's 34½-ft. wing, housing a 190-h.p. engine and a flight instrument panel, is detachable from the auto, which...
...School Try. Taylor's "blunt honesty" was admired by the Louisville Courier-Journal, which nevertheless found some practical objections: "Dr. Taylor overlooks some of the reasons for the sham of amateurism. Football players are less expensive when paid with [scholarships]. Besides the cash value . . . the prestige, popularity and coeducational opportunities of the successful campus athlete are premiums an honest system would find it hard to replace. And even if a team could be operated as cheaply with time-clock players, box-office figures prove that the old school try still outdraws the frankly professional game...
Near Rohri in Pakistan several hundred Moslems stopped a train, hauled out 13 Sikhs, clubbed them to death with hockey sticks. An Indian Army courier told how, in the remote Shakirgarh district of Pakistan, a small Hindu military force had found only 1,500 known survivors from a community of 120,000 Sikhs. He estimated that over 100,000 had been butchered, caught between a howling Moslem mob and the flooded Ravi river...
Last week, as workmen installed air conditioning and loudspeakers in the two Louisville libraries, University phones were jammed with "Neighborhood" applicants. Said tall, easygoing John Taylor: "There is no question of the demand." Said the Louisville Courier-Journal: "There is no question of the . . . need...