Word: ticklishness
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...with reams of preliminary data about weather, harbors, landing bases. Still no mention was made of any airline project, for in New Zealand Pan American's representative, Harold Gatty, the quiet Australian who flew around the world with Wiley Post (TIME, July 6, 1931), was engaged in the ticklish job of persuading that British Dominion to give landing rights to Pan American. New Zealand did not see why the U. S. should not grant her reciprocal rights. These have not been granted, but three weeks ago New Zealand capitulated, gave Pan American exclusive permission to fly into New Zealand...
...Musick. With a six-man crew he buzzed uneventfully to Honolulu, slowing down to let Amelia Earhart pass undisturbed. From Honolulu, few days after Miss Earhart crashed (TIME. March 29), Capt. Musick again soared into the sky. this time turned southwest and faced the world's most ticklish navigation problem- that of finding a speck of land 120 ft. long, 90 ft. wide, and only three feet high, which no plane had ever seen. This tiny spot is Kingman Reef, discovered some 80 years ago by Captain John Kingman of the U. S. schooner Shooting Star. Other ships occasionally...
...third one of amethyst, carnelian or faience and a fourth which appeared to be of cylindrical stone beads. Other ornaments were a sort of bib and two wristlets, apparently of faience; three scarabs, apparently of stone, and an oval seal ring. Unwrapping a mummy without destroying it is ticklish business, but Director Winlock plans to try it in order to get at these treasures...
...music: this is cannot do with any conspicuous degree of success while it is struggling to function with inadequate facilities, and an under-manned personnel. The panacca for these ailments is, of course, more money. The problem of who is to get what share of tercentenary spoils is a ticklish one: there are certain crying needs which cannot be overlooked, and the Music Department's is one of them...
Undismayed, Democrats next turned to the ticklish subject of beer. Last year traditionally Dry Kansas said NO by 90,000 votes in a referendum on legalizing beer. But the Legislature then failed to follow through with a law fixing alcoholic content. Result: potent beer continued to foam unchecked in Kansas. Democrats charge that Governor Landon got the Legislature to dodge the issue and thwart the popular will because, as a prospective Presidential nominee, he was afraid his signature on a bone dry law would cost him support among Eastern Wets. Last week a Democratic proposal for such...