Word: subhead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invite your attention, please, to an apparent error on p. 21 (TIME, Nov. 29), under the heading MEDICINE, subhead "At Sea." The caption "USS" means "United States Ship" and is applied ONLY to ships of the Navy. The caption "SS" means "Steamship" and is used when referring to merchant vessels. Neither the Eastern Glade nor the West Calumb is a vessel of the United States Navy. The fact that the health of the crew sort of depended upon the Captain's knowledge of medicine, might create the wrong impression among civilians?fathers, mothers or other relatives of officers and enlisted...
Readers of the Boston Herald were puzzled at first to know what to make of the subhead but, schooled by long practice to deal with such typographical vagaries, they quickly saw that the line of small type belonged under a headline farther down the page...