Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twisting his way through a difficult kolo between Eastern and Western enemies. "Well, what now?" he concluded after two hours and twelve minutes. "Reaction in the West hates us. We are not loved in the East. Can we go on this way? Of course we can, because we must...
Bypassing the peace delegates, Boss Mao had drafted an ultimatum, sent it south to Nanking by special messenger. Its chief demand: within four days, the Nationalist armies must be transferred to Communist command. Otherwise Red troops, strengthened in the past months by fresh conscripts and regular reinforcements from Manchuria, would strike across the Yangtze...
...states that all foreign-language posters and signs must include-in bigger type-a Spanish translation. Offenders are subject to a fine of $2.50 a day per sign. To businessmen who have festooned Panama with such slogans as Royal Crown Cola's "Best by Taste-Test," strict enforcement could be a headache. But most Panamanians seemed unimpressed. Snorted a reporter for one of Panama's newspapers (over which the commission has no control): "We common people will still ask for sanwiches, not emparedados, when we go to lonch...
...Enough Money. The 90-odd pilots of the Flight Test Division, most of them based at Wright Field, have the highest prestige of any group in the peacetime Air Force. Slim, unshakably calm Colonel Albert Boyd, 42, chief of the division, picks his men with minute care. Their records must show that they are not "accident prone." Formal engineering training is valuable, but character is essential. The prospective test pilot must be alert, intelligent, stable and not excitable. He must be enthusiastic about the work. There isn't enough money, explains Colonel Boyd undramatically, to pay for what...
Over & above these professional qualifications, Colonel Boyd demands that the test pilots have agreeable personalities. They are, he feels, ambassadors of the Air Force to civilian engineers and designers. They must criticize airplanes sharply, point out defects, suggest changes. Everybody is happier if such work can be done tactfully. Colonel Boyd is skillful at selecting his ambassadors: one notable fact about them is that they have pleasant personalities (another is that the married ones have pretty wives...