Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain is dedicated to decent homes and delousing for all. But, for a Government also dedicated to respect for individual property and other rights, while striving to provide the good life in a time of national strain, the problem is how to keep pace with a long-patient people who are suddenly losing their patience. Of course the few London squatters are an infinitesimal fraction of Britain's millions. But they are an index fraction...
...watches the instrument panel, sends the readings of every dial to the screen in the radio truck. Other instruments send their readings direct on their own radio channels, recording on a moving paper strip such things as the flutter of the plane's wings, or the changing strain on its surfaces...
Structural Test. During tests of the airplane's structural strength, the radio equipment especially shines. Designers like to know how much extra strain an airplane will take. Formerly, they sent a human pilot aloft with instructions to test the plane for the most extreme strains it would get in combat or commercial service. Often, especially in spin tests or pullouts from high-speed dives, something broke or failed to work. Even if the pilot parachuted to safety, neither he nor the plane's smashed instruments could tell the full story of just what happened at the climax...
They bred large masses of disease germs, learned how to make them as virulent as possible and keep them so. They tested each strain for hardiness and longevity. They determined the exact number needed to start an infection and studied "all possible means of dissemination and routes of entrance into the susceptible individual...
Droves of veteran students will put a new strain on these facilities during the next four years. Durant is frankly anxious about this period of overerowdedness, and even the Corporation seems aware of the problem. And while the Corporation consults no one, Durant will consult with Durant until a sound, hard-headed, and thoroughly safe solution is reached...