Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born on a farm near North Hartland, Vt. during the first year of the Civil War. The first locomotive he saw ran by the farm on the old Central Vermont. Aged 16, he taught school for a spell. Aged 17, he was sent to Massachusetts Agricultural College. Bad eyesight compelled him to give up his studies, get a job in a track gang. Three years later he was an engineer on the Connecticut & Passumpsic River, now a part of the Boston & Maine. Then he went West. When next seen he was "hogging" (driving a locomotive) on the Lake Shore & Michigan...
Permit me to give the solution of the mystery to TIME: A railroad telegraph operator, retired on account of failing eyesight, owned a couple of collies. His home is near the two great westbound main lines of the B & O and Big Four (beyond these tracks flows the Ohio River). One day a train killed one of his dogs. He knew of the accident, and instead of burying his pet, left that job to the section-crew. But somebody took the lifeless body, strung it up and built the fire as described to me by the policeman who discovered...
...What in the world could have been the cause of my eyesight failing at such a critical moment? Is it liable to happen again without the aid of the 18th Amendment? I saw the old Constitution outside of Annapolis the other day. She looked quite innocent of having had any part in diabolic Amendments. Well, thank the Lord, that part is over with. Now for the next. Let's hope it will happen in waters too deep for the 18th Amendment-fish traps. . . . Well, here's how to you and all. Hope this is safer stuff. The other...
Since 1928 some 5,000 applicants for private pilot's licenses and student permits have been rejected because their eyesight was below this requirement:". . . at least 20/50 in each eye without correction, which can be corrected approximately to normal [20/20]* by goggle lenses. . . ." Glasses were forbidden both during tests and in flight. The rule had the effect of limiting potential private flyers to 40% of the population up to middle...
Qualification for commercial and transport pilots (normal eyesight without correction) remained the same...