Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole air transport business, public confidence was apparently not seriously shaken. Last week's bookings were reported normal. Meanwhile airlines increased their already enormous precautions to prevent a recurrence of last winter's disasters. Schedules were slowed up, deicers fitted, cruising range extended, U.A.L. quickly raised the instrument flying altitude over the mountainous stretch of the "worst U. S. airplane accident'' from...
...regulations pilots will receive "certificates of competency" instead of licenses, have their private flying divided into two parts-"contact and flying," when the ground is visible at all times and flying conditions are good; and instrument flying, when weather conditions are foggy, stormy and ceilings are low. For solo rating, pilots must have five hours alone in the air; private pilots, 35 hours; limited commercial pilots, 60 hours; commercial pilots, 200 hours; airline pilots, 1,200 hours. Other rules...
...supplied with the record. The student by this method can play the record, hear first the sounding of a, then comes the beating of time for one measure, and, after a measure of silence, the music begins, making it possible for the student to join in with his own instrument...
...zither, a German-Austrian-Swiss folk instrument, is sometimes called "the mountain piano." A really good zither is a shallow box with 41 wire strings. Laid on the lap or a table, it is played by fingering with the left hand, plinking with a thumb pick and fingers of the right hand...
...rate flat tax with positive gain in revenue to the Treasury. The rule regarding trading by insiders can be modified so as to restore protective action by insiders on breaks, and still prevent unfair use of inside information. The margin requirements can be made a flexible instrument of control, rising promptly on stockmarket booms and dropping promptly on breaks. The great range of uncertainty regarding what is allowable in the activity of specialists and other dealers can be greatly reduced by prompt and clear definitions by the Securities and Exchange Commission. and, above all, the unfortunate requirement...