Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointing Lilienthal the President had risked a test in Congress, but it looked as though McKellar would have to be content. Politician McKellar was in the hands of a man who knew the business...
...Test. It is quite possible that even with better management and personnel UNRRA could not have achieved an impressive record before the end of hostilities in Europe. Herbert Hoover's famed United States Food Administration in World War I did not really get down to business until after the Armistice. Then Mr. Hoover was able to hire 1,500 employes out of the Army and Navy. (The U.S. military is now prepared to release some men for UNRRA work...
Died. Marshall Headle, 52, who trained U.S. Army flyers in World War I, and as successor to the late Wiley Post as Lockheed Aircraft's top test pilot tested some 300 different types of plane (including the P-38 Lightning on its maiden flight) with out once having to bail out ; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif...
When they finally find each other again, there is no question about it: they are going to get married. All afternoon, working against the city's implacably ticking clocks, they fight their way through the cruel bureaucratic mazes of getting a blood test, a license, a waiver of the 72 hours' invalidity. They tear in just under the wire for a grimy little civil ceremony that is shattered to bits by the passage of elevated trains. There follows a beautiful, bleak scene in an off-hours lunchroom where a munching stranger at the next table looks...
...best observations of the week. For instance, "Bashful Bob" Brocker freely admitted for once that he had "been around a bit." We suspected it all along. "Hashmark Harry" Cagle and "Boilermaker" Lutz showed inspired knowledge of naval affairs. Jim Frauenhoff brings a world atlas to tests to determine the location of 100 degrees east and west longitude and still can's figure the TA from Boston to Boston. By the way, did you notice the subtle irony in that ill-fated test Tuesday...