Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Congressman F. H. La Guardia of New York, one time World War aviator, never backward at speech, came vituperation unequivocal and pungent. Congressman La Guardia had watched the tests from the air. Said he: "A waste of the taxpayers' money . . . the cost of the test will equal the cost of three up-to-date planes . . . Anti-aircraft defense from the ground is as inefficient today as it was during the War -. . Put the money into the air service and the people of the Atlantic and Pacific .would sleep in peace regardless of what emergency this country might...
From Brigadier General Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Service, who had also observed the test from the air, came not even a tight-lipped comment. He kept silent...
...Washington deposed Air Chief, now Colonel William E. Mitchell, entered the office of General Fechet, issued therefrom a broadside against those opposed to expansion of the Air Service. He characterized the test as a "kindergarten performance." ". . . The towing airplanes were trying to hit the muzzles of the guns with the targets. The next Congress will demand that all cards be laid on the table, to see what is vital to the defense of the nation. . . The air people will be just as aggressive in the next Congress as in the last. . . .We are now on the eve of an entire...
...taken his instrument East, dreaming of finding oil close on the edge of a vast industrial section. He had convinced two Rhode Island worsted merchants of the instrument's efficacy, had induced them to spend (up to last week) some $400,000, leasing 12,000 acres and sinking a test drill. All this in secret. Said one of the promoters: "This is just our little baby. We don't want people to laugh...
...subjects went about their business as usual. In the evening they were sent to the theatre, after which their blood-pressure was examined. On the afternoon of the second day they went to the country and watched a youngsters' ball game. Then a blood test was taken. Some drove dummy automobiles. Professors sat beside them, observed how they did it. Little circles now began to appear under the eyes of the robust specimens. For in the course of these experiments they had never once gone to sleep. That was the experiment...