Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago, alarmed by widespread and contradictory criticism of U.S. combat planes and its effect on morale, OWI made a survey, published a report. Its warning: no plane can be found good, bad or indifferent until it has met its final test-battle. Its "verdict: although U.S. air power had been caught short of many necessaries (e.g., radio detectors, a system of bases), the U.S. combat .planes that had jought up to the time of the report had already been proven superior to the enemy's, on average. This week TIME updates OWI's report...
...aircraft goes on. The new superbombers which General Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold seriously promised would make "the Fortresses of today . . . the medium bombers of tomorrow" will see service before this war is over. New fighters, which should be better than anything now flying in combat, are now flying in test before production...
Avenger will shortly have a running-mate, a Vought-designed Torpedo-plane made by Consolidated Vultee. Already in production, it shows promise of even better performance, but airmen are withholding final judgment until the new craft, called Seawolf, gets its test in battle...
...story of a lethal genie that can live in a test tube for 20 years and, when uncorked, can kill again was told in Public Health Reports last week by Dr. Edward Francis. The genie is the bubonic-plague bacillus...
...particular bacillus used in Dr. Francis' experiment was taken in 1923 from a sick California ground squirrel. It was used to inoculate 48 test tubes partly filled with beef infusion agar jelly. The tubes were tightly sealed to insure a moist atmosphere and stored at a temperature...