Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early prejudice against parachutes has entirely disappeared, since they are now as nearly fool-proof as possible. The members of the Caterpillar Club (men who have escaped a catastrophe by means of the chute) now number hundreds. Every Army and Navy pilot and many flying civilians are instructed in its use. The great Lieut. John R. Macready himself owed his life to this device. When his motor failed over the city of Dayton, his ghostly warning cry of "Hullo, there below!" frightened the men seeking his remains in his wrecked airplane...
Then the Secretary of State had an idea. What better exhibition of friendship, what better proof of amity, what better gauge of good will, than to break a precedent...
...first act was to assure France through his Government that there was no need to maintain a large Army on the Franco-Spanish frontier. The French relied upon his assurances and transferred no less than three army corps from the Pyrenees to the battlefields of northern France. More signal proof of his attachment to the Allied cause were his efforts on the behalf of prisoners-of-war and his great services in ascertaining the fate of soldiers and civilians reported missing. He was, through his personal organization, enabled to help stricken relatives in every way possible by forwarding parcels...
...Positive Proof...
...very much interested in your article on Peter Veregin, in your Nov. 17 issue, Page 17. To me, this is a positive proof of the authenticity and correctness of your news, as your article on the death of Peter Veregin was more interesting, contained more facts and was nearer correct in detail than any of the newspapers right here in Winnipeg. Thought you might be interested in this fact...