Word: scots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Reith figured the twice-floundered Corsair still worth a muckle. He sent a fellow Scot, braw George Halliday, Imperial Airways sectional engineer, out from Cairo. By this time the river had gone down and there would not again be enough water for a take-off till spring of 1940. Scot Halliday figured Congo weather would have ruined the Corsair utterly by then...
Last week newspapermen were anxious to find out what the Ministry of Information would be like under this sanctimonious Scot. As head of British Broadcasting Corp. from 1922 to 1938, he raised its programs to an all-time record for dullness...