Word: printers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S timely description of the Sky Tiger by Bell out of Buffalo goes haywire in its second paragraph (TiME, Nov. 15, Transport). The printer's the fall guy (we hope) when he says "two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns." Calibre is the diameter of the bore between the lands. A ".50 calibre gun" is a ½ in. gun. Incidentally the service says "calibre...
...belonged to the people and held a head position in the almanacs of all nations. In 1472 the astronomer Regio-Montanus originated the present form of the almanac. The first book to be printed in the colonies was "An Almanac calculated for New England, by Mr. Picrce." The printer was one Stephen Daye of Cambridge; the date...
...Music Hall canard is worse than bad news reporting; it is a printer's error. TIME wrote two statements coupled by the word "and": "Tammany Hall still controls the Borough of Manhattan pretty thoroughly, and Radio City's Music Hall, M. O. T. first-run house in New York, is the finest theatre in Manhattan." The last six words were omitted-with horrifying results...
...reference to the Music Halls failure to run the LaGuardia pictures for a second week is the fault of no printer, but nevertheless unfair to the Music Hall, which has an option to run M. O. T. for two weeks, only occasionally exercises...
Contrite, Columnist Paris explained that a printer had mistaken...