Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examined Pilot Ocker at Kelly Field, after he recovered from a broken vertebra, and grounded him for weak eyesight. Pilot Ocker, no friend of Kelly Field's hard-boiled com mander, Lieut.-Colonel Henry B. Clagett, took his re-examination at another field, managed to pass the eye test. Back he went to Major Johnston and, according to the court-martial charges, said: "If other pilots on this field, namely such as Clagett, were given more than a cursory examination they too would be off flying status. There was collusion between you and the Commanding Officer of this field...
...years ago a thin, fine rain of inflation sentiment began to fall on the Slough of Depression. Nine months ago men realized there was a rising flood. By October when the last of the old gold standard was submerged many a man saw in his mind's eye the members of Congress assembling in an inundated Capitol wading through the green waters of the flood, legislating in a sea of deep greenbackery. Last week the prophets of catastrophe saw that they were at least in part mistaken. The flood looked silvery, not green and the direction of its drift...
Owner Sack had the ground around the mill cleansed with burning gasoline, equipped his workers with masks and gloves. But he did not decide to evacuate the town until the parents of a child who had lost an eye from anthrax threatened to sue him. Last week he bluntly explained that workers are covered by industrial insurance, but that his company could not pay compensation for illness or death of nonworkers & children...
...motormakers which brought their glistening yearlings to the Show last week, proudest was General Motors. Its litter was six-a full line. Apple of its eye was Cadillac, its high-priced line at $2,395 for the V8, $3,995 for the V-12's and $6,650 for the V16. Built only on order, the V16 remained a limited edition. All Cadillacs have independent front-wheel suspension ("knee- action...
...North Sea, since obviously it could not have surmounted the locks in the Caledonian Canal which leads from the lake to the Atlantic. Englishmen began to take the monster seriously when Lieut. -Commander R. T. Gould, R. N. retired, author of The Case for the Sea Serpent, collected 51 eye witness accounts and drawings, which he duly detailed in the London Times. It was about 50 ft. long, he had concluded, and not more than five feet thick, with long, tapering neck and tail, a button head. It had rough skin with a dark ridge down its back...