Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clipper will be factory-tested as soon as the Housatonic River is free of ice. Pan American will test it from New York to Miami, will accept it when it proves itself able to fly 1,250 mi. nonstop at 150 m.p.h. with full complement of passengers, crew and mail. It will probably be slated for the run from Miami to Buenos Aires, which it is expected to cut from seven days to five. If so, it will become the world's biggest and fastest airplane in Regular over-water service...
...contracts were canceled. .The announcement had hardly-been issued before one more Air Corps death was added to the list. Lieut. R. G. Richardson of the Reserve Corps, onetime copilot on United Air Lines, was working in a filling station when he was summoned for mail duty. Making a test flight in the type of observation plane that bore two Army pilots to death in flames near Cheyenne last fortnight (TIME, March 19), Lieut. Richardson somehow got his ship into a nosedive, crashed three miles from the Cheyenne airport, died in flames. Nevertheless, with the weather generally clear, mail flights...
...strike may be averted but the test will come again in some other way. The whole NRA policy toward labor has been a hodge-podge from the beginning and, while the problem is by no means simple, the role of the Government has until recently been that of a neutral and not a partisan. When the Government becomes a partisan in industrial warfare, only the resort to strikes has been the unhappy answer, with the public getting it on the chin in every instance in the form of higher consumer prices to pay increased costs of production...
...water and injected into the arm of the patient. The reaction is very quick, unconsciousness following in some twenty seconds. Intravenous injection permits the doctors and nurses to dispense with the masks required for the safe administration of ether. When the patient awakes, his condition is practically unchanged; the test case was able to eat a large meal after the trial, a feat impossible after anesthetization by ether...
...then jailed, but escapes with the aid of Lydia, the beautiful Indian maiden and travels to Washington, where he enlists the aid of a sympathetic Indian Commissioner, and by making his case a test issue, obtains a new deal for the oppressed redskin...