Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Fred Learned restrained a Yankee grin and 1,000 guests hunched forward expectantly, Dr. Evans "vacuumed" him with a Geiger counter similar to the ones which will be used at the Bikini atom bomb test. When placed near his throat, the sensitive device set up a clatter which, amplified for the audience, was clearly audible in the banquet hall...
Many jittery readers, wondered whether the Bikini atomic-bomb test had been given a secret preview. Answer: a definite no. It would take many times 20,000 tons of TNT (the equivalent of the atomic bomb to be dropped at Bikini) to match the earthquake in the Aleutian Deep...
...will be indoors-in the Army Air Forces' "Climatic Hangar." This $6,000,000 project, abuilding at Eglin Field Proving Ground since October 1944, and scheduled for completion in July, is far & away the most ambitious attempt yet made to synthesize the vagaries of nature. Its purpose: to test planes, equipment and men under every climatic condition...
...engine test room with the full temperature range of the main hangar, plus blowers for simulating sand and dust storms...
...jungle room, damp and hot, where test materials can be infected with fungi and mold...