Word: steers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsverifying queries like these make up only a small part of the dozens of wires and cables that pour out of our New York office each week to our correspondents at home and overseas. By far the greater number of these messages are in connection with our newsgathering-to steer our correspondents along channels that will help our editors bring you a clearer, more complete, better connected story of the week's news. But add them all together-and I think you'll see why our News Bureau's bill for outgoing messages alone...
...tube has fascinating possibilities. Some are military. Perched in the nose of a pilotless bomber, the tube could watch the terrain below, projecting what it sees on a screen in a guiding airplane many miles behind. By watching the screen, an operator who remains in faraway safety could steer the bomber cross-country by remote control...
...reason for both parties was Colonel McCormick's 65th birthday. He reached the milestone looking like a man who could continue to steer the vast and noisy Tribune on its huff-puffing course for years to come...
...grey light Gomez walked up to a fat steer, shot it between the eyes. He and his wife were butchering it with practiced strokes when a vaquero rode up, challenged them, fired over their heads. Scampering away through the mesquite, Mr. & Mrs. Gomez left their tools behind. When they dared go home, they found a policeman waiting on the porch. Last week, cowboy customers of Gomez' Grapevine Inn were sad: no more thick, juicy beefsteaks would they get. Angel was serving two years in prison...
Last week, accompanied by Captain John O'Connell, Jimmy arrived by clipper. Decorations won by his flier buddies covered his blue serge lapel. Jimmy's thoughts, for once, were far from music. He said: "They let me hold the rudder and steer the ship, and my, that was a thrill...