Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Test Charlie, the explosion of the sixth atomic bomb (in water three miles deep outside Bikini Lagoon), was postponed indefinitely last week by presidential order. The announced reason: Charlie would not add enough new information to the better-than-expected data collected at the first two Bikini tests. The unannounced and more compelling cause: economy. With both the Army & Navy scrabbling to make a combined $1.6 billion budget cut, Charlie looked like a $35-million baby who would not be missed...
Last week's victims of his satire: the "Men of Distinction" liquor ads, tedious radio news features, tobacco auctioneers and cigaret advertising (". . . Try the taste test. Simply take a package of Morgan cigarets, remove the paper from each cigaret [and] pour the tobacco into a bowl. Now, taste...
Said one expert: "Airline management is _ faced with the critical test of its ability to organize. The history of every fast-developing large industry reflects a heavy turnover of management. The airlines are now on the threshold of this period...
...Biggest Fact. This week, with the 1946 elections just two months off, ICCASP got ready for its most serious, practical political test. As much as any political organization, it had to face up to 1946's biggest political fact: Franklin D. Roosevelt is no longer around. He had inspired the committee, given it a cause, dazzled its members with invitations to the White House. They had all belonged to the group which felt that F.D.R. could never do wrong...
...Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported reassuringly: 1) commercial penicillin now in use is predominantly of the effective G type instead of the useless K (TIME, May 6); and 2) while new penicillin-resistant varieties of bacteria have been developed in test tubes, they are not yet a problem in practice...