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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME tradition-the Current Affairs Test which was interrupted as one of our wartime economies-will be back in TIME in the issue of Oct. 14th...
...many of you will recall, we dropped the test from the magazine in the spring of 1942 because of the wartime paper shortage. It had appeared regularly in TIME (at first, twice, then three times a year) since the issue of March 11, 1935. The original test was modeled after a similar one prepared for the American Council on Education by Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, now vice president of Stanford University, and Elmo C. Wilson, now research director of the Columbia Broadcasting System. They became the mentors of TIME'S Current Affairs Test, and they still are-aided...
Last week, the Navy told about the animals' ordeal. At Test Able (the air-burst bomb), there were 3,030 white rats, 176 goats and 146 pigs on 22 target vessels. Some were near the blast center, some far off. Some were sheltered, some exposed. About 10% died at once of air blast; 10% more had died, chiefly of radiation sickness, by late August. The same number, many presumably injured were killed for examination...
...Test Baker (the underwater bomb) the score was higher. Two hundred white rats and 20 pigs were confined in the sick bays of four ships near the bomb. All were well sheltered, and none of their ships was sunk. But 77 rats were dead soon after the blast. Forty-nine died later of lingering radiation sickness. Of the 20 little pigs that went to Test Baker, no little pig came home. Six were found dead when their shelters were entered four days after the explosion. All the rest died in two weeks...
Last year, a group of nature-loving scientists at New York's American Museum of Natural History decided to find out how DDT could be used against harmful insects without hurting innocent wildlife. As a test area they chose five square miles of Bear Mountain Park, a popular resort infested with pestiferous, germ-spreading flies...