Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparation, to force the Argentine conscience with a view to leading it coldly and without any immediate motive to the breaking of relations with the Axis. . . . When defeat is inexorably drawing closer to the countries of the Axis, this unexpected rupture would furthermore put Argentine chivalry to a hard test...
That night, on scores of airdromes, pilots and crews compared notes, adduced new facts and reappraised some old ones about comparative German and Allied air strength. One fact was paramount. At the place and time of this particular test, the Luftwaffe was helpless; Allied air power was supreme...
...Boulogne, the port of northern France chosen for a pre-invasion test last week, the Germans are only 200 mi. from the Reich. For all military purposes, Belgium, The Netherlands and the Channel coast of France are walls of the inner fortress. On that coast last week, not a Nazi gun spoke when a British troop convoy hove within sight and range. Airmen sweeping northwestern France got the impression that both ground and aerial defenses were astoundingly weak; London heard that the Germans had withdrawn 13 of their 34 divisions from western France and the Lowlands. Either the Nazis...
...While test pilots were still wringing out the last of the bugs, Grumman Production Boss Leon A. Swirbul started to get the factory tooled. Three months after the first test flight, "Jake" Swirbul had rolled the first production model...
...test of a broadcasting system is the excellence of its programs, the prescription should be not more public control, but less. . . . To continue with the present system would be to condemn broadcasting to the fate that would have attended the press if, from its birth, it had been nationalized, or the stage if there had never been more than two or three state theaters, or art if the only commissions were those to be obtained from public bodies. There will be no excellence with out competition. . . . The virtues of American broadcasting are not due to its advertising sponsorship. . .so much...