Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great blow was struck at Harvard undergraduates and Faculty last night when Widener Library was hit by a heavy demolition bomb in a regional test air raid...
...security reasons," other instances of Spanish courtesy to the Allies cannot be published. But Spanish newspapers now publish Allied war communiques, Allied war photographs; the radio carries advertisements of American goods. In a recent test of strength the Allies "persuaded" Franco to clear Axis shipping spies out of Tangier on the North African coast...
Voices from England. In London, Food Secretary Lord Woolton said that ships were at sea bearing "thousands of tons of cereals" to India. But his words did not allay a nation's conscience. Said the liberal New Statesman and Nation: "The British Raj has failed in a major test. ..." Observed the ultra-Tory Sunday Observer...
...Chicago Tribune has been conducting a cross-country test of synthetic "Tribuna" tires (made of butadiene derived from waste sulfite liquor from the Tribune's paper mills). Driven by a Tribune reporter, the tires survived go-mile-an-hour driving in 150-degree heat in California's Death Valley, finally blew out the first shoe after 7,800 miles when the car hit a ditch across a mountain road...
...lather up a good deal of apt comic comment on the lives and habits of U.S. defense workers. The film's central characters are Good Girl Maisie Revere (Miss Sothern in her sixth Maisie picture) and Bad Girl Iris (Jean Rogers). They are sidelighted by a cocky test pilot, for whom Maisie falls hard, and by a bolt & nut man-the chinny type who assures every new girl in the plant that he knows all the angles...