Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more advanced than that of guidance and control, it is by no means [true that] "Power supply is no problem." The suggestion that "Bat" and "Loon" are the only guided missiles to have passed the blueprint stage is not quite correct. There are several projects that have entered the test phase, but of course no elaboration on any such projects can be given because of the security regulations vital to national defense. The conservative and factual presentation made by TIME is representative of the high type of journalism necessary in the development of a program of this nature. . . . KEITH...
...Walter Winchell rushed into type with the lowdown on those saucers in the sky (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). They were flying wings, said Walter; he knew all about it, including details of a Montana crash. Wrote Winchell: ". . . in 1943 an American firm . . . pioneering in jet-propulsion planes sent an experimental test ship through the so-called supersonic wall. In other words ... it was traveling in space ahead of itself. . . . The plane was not heard of again for more than three weeks, when it was found crashed somewhere in lower Montana. The pilot was dead. He was 38, but his teeth...
Photographs for the Register, which will appear some time before Thanks-giving, will be taken at the H.A.A. physical efficiency step test at the rate of 60 men per hour...
...with Frederick Underwood Conard.* In 30 years as executive vice president of the Underwood Corp., Conard had made a reputation as an exacting but fair boss. Hardly had he settled his 6 ft. 5 in. and 230 lbs. in his new job than his reputation was put to the test...
...Food & Drug Administration, recognizing an emergency when it sees one, swiftly collected 4,000 samples of gum-in all flavors-and started chewing. Seventy-five human guinea pigs, including 25 children, chomped bubble gum for periods up to eight hours. The test wads were anything from one to six sticks. For comparison, paraffin wax was also chewed...