Word: pennsylvanians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worth Two Cents. Credit for improving revision methods goes to Ohio-born, frog-voiced Elkin Harrison Powell, 54, president of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. since 1934, and Editor Yust, a patient, diligent stringbean of a Pennsylvanian who joined the staff in 1930. In 1939, Yust started a revision schedule under which every article would be scrutinized at least twice a decade. As helpers in this job he has University of Chicago graduate students, paid in the form of $1,000 scholarships...
...Idaho-born Ezra Pound, who has been in Italy since 1924 and broadcasts for the Fascists, and these Berlin propagandists: Chicago-born Douglas Chandler, Iowan Fred Kaltenbach, Georgian Jane Anderson, Pennsylvanian Constance Drexel...
...other side of the nation, the UCLA Daily Bruin joined the ranks of the Daily Pennsylvanian and others in cutting the size of their paper to tabloid form...
Through the light snowfall, he saw the Pennsylvanian's headlight coming toward him at some 70 miles an hour. Suddenly, from a passing freight train, a half-ton cylinder head was blown from the locomotive, landed squarely on the track before the oncoming express. From his tower Schwartzkopf saw the Pennsylvanian's headlight weaving and rocking. The locomotive left the rails, skidded on its side 200 feet to crash into the control tower...
Schwartzkopf, dazed but unhurt, found himself on the tracks, the wreckage piled around him, the control tower aflame. A coach had sheared against the locomotive as if a knife had cut it down the middle. The Pennsylvanian's fireman and at least eleven others were dead; 42 or more were injured. The engineer lost an arm. An hour after the wreck a Chicago advertising man discovered that he still held in his hand the bridge cards he had been ready to play when the train left the tracks...