Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hopes to make a test case of him. On their side is a 1938 Supreme Court decision that states must either admit Negroes to state universities, or appropriate money for an accredited university for Negroes. Texas promptly changed the name of its Negro Prairie View College to Prairie View University and doubled its appropriations. A Negro can study blacksmithing, laundering and broom-making at Prairie View-but not law, medicine or engineering...
...Mexico, last week, crack crews in green-marked B-29s competed for the honor of dropping the fourth atomic bomb. Their target runs were secret, lest sharp-eyed newsmen guess too much. Not so secret was the test flight of an ancient, radio-controlled B17. Guided by radio impulses from a jeep, the creaking, beaten-up bomber struggled into the air. Then a "mother plane" took its controls by radio, circled it round the field. Riding with its two hands-off pilots were two volunteers: a male and a female correspondent. The landing was rough, close to a crackup...
...lagoon. So far, the plans concerned chiefly the first bomb, scheduled to be dropped about May 15. No one knew what changes of plans would seem prudent before the second bomb exploded. In any case, promised Vice Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, boss of Operation Crossroads, the test would not be rigged to favor the Army, the Navy or the bomb...
...Navy's medical section, commanded by Captain R. H. Draeger, hopes that none of the test animals will be killed outright. Said Draeger: "We want radiation sick animals, but not radiation-dead animals."* After the blast, the goats, pigs and rats will be collected and rushed to the U.S.S. Burleson, a transport equipped to house them. There, medics will study the effect upon them of the deadly gamma rays...
...Angeles, Hearst's Examiner was already rallying anti-vivisectionists to save the test animals...