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Pilot error occurred in almost every crash, according to FORTUNE'S investigation into official and final Department oi Commerce reports and according to the lines' own findings. Example: the pilot was thrust into an unnecessarily dangerous situation by faulty dispatching (once), radio troubles (often) or bad weather forecasting (often). No crash of a scheduled plane in recent years has been due to structural failure of the plane itself. No one has ever proved that a radio beam has failed, but any map of the radio ranges shows that many more are needed...
...generally content to muse on minor human foibles. In semi-serious vein he perennially campaigns against arsenic apple spray. He is a friend-but not, as reported by bumbling Alexander Woollcott, the founder-of the Enemies of Modern Aviation, Inc. Last week, however, connoisseurs recognized an unusually earnest thrust from the White rapier in a New Yorker paragraph which gave the President and his Court plan a pinking far more effective than the bludgeonings of his customarily solemn critics. Full text...
Last week he also dismissed the Committee, whose Chairman Howard S. Cullman at once demanded to know why his group had been dismissed "in so abrupt a manner without so much as an explanation." All year there was talk that Director Weaver would resign, but he thrust out his square jaw, snapped that he would "not be forced out" until he had accomplished something...
...northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets!" Jay Gould put through his branch line after all, but with it, his unpleasant prophecy started to come true. The railroad made Jefferson's tributary back country independent of the port. That same year (1873) Government engineers decided Big Cypress...
...lower jaw to move straight up and down against the upper jaw, instead of in the natural scissors movement. The extra height of the middle teeth prevents Dr. Sears's patients from shutting their jaws completely. Only way to do that and to bite into food is to thrust out the lower jaw so that the high teeth clear each other. This enables one to nibble. While this process goes on (practice soon removes the strain), the second molars keep the artificial dentures from springing out of the mouth...