"Pulp Cthulhu" book; Chapter 8, "The 1930s"
* "1930's Slang table" -- The "P" in "Wheat P" needs to be moved to the beginning of the definition (currently "erson unused to city ways").
* "The New Deal" section: "wideranging powers" should be "wide-ranging powers" in the blurb about the National Recovery Agency.
* "Alphabet Soup" section: in the "PWA and WPA" section, "infr astr ucture" -> "infrastructure"
* "Prohibition and Appeal": "twothirds" -> "two thirds"
* "Famous Criminals": "fiftyninth" -> "fifty-ninth" in the section on "Machine Gun" Kelly
* "Famous Criminals": "gunned-down" should probably be "gunned down' in the section on "Pretty Boy" Floyd
* "Famous Criminals": at the end of the section, the bit
should be preceded byQuote:
Enemies" was used to demonize
at a minimum. Maybe there's more missing -- perhaps in the original there's something separating it from the end of the section on Barker and sons; I don't have a hardcopy or Chaosium PDF to compare.Quote:
"Public "
* The Lindbergh Baby: "fifty-thousanddollar ransom" -> something between thousand and dollar. I would be inclined to think "-" would be grammatically correct, but don't have an original to check to see what was actually used.
* Daily Life/Unemployment: "onequarter" -> "one-quarter" in the first paragraph
* Daily Life/Unemployment: "deepseated" -> "deep-seated" in the last paragraph
* Entertainment/Radio: "Amos ?n Andy" -> "Amos 'n' Andy"
* Entertainment/Film: hm, "twocolor" and "threecolor" should probably be "two-color" and "three-color"
* Entertainment/Literature: suspect that
should beQuote:
call the pulps "literature," (at least
but not certain on that.Quote:
call the pulps "literature", (at least
* Another Night in Arkham/paragraph 9 (Viper): "thousanddollar smile" -> "thousand-dollar smile". Also, the entire entry appears twice in a row.