Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth Air Force in England is calling for an anachronism. Its bomber crews want body armor. Reason: it has been proved by battle test that mail shirts and steel helmets save air crews' lives...
...home-town paper, the Arlington, Va. Daily. Because it was Sunday, Mr. Smith celebrated his arrival at this milestone of middle age by sleeping late (9:30 a.m.) and playing eleven holes of dufferish golf at the nearby Washing ton Golf and Country Club, a course which would test a mountain goat. (If his tall, athletic wife Lillian had gone along, she would have trounced him. She shoots in the low 80s.) At dinner there was a cake, which they ate on the porch (see cut) surrounded by Sunday newspapers...
There were awards for dock laborers, trawler skippers, test pilots, A.R.P. workers, reception mothers for evacuees, and bus drivers; for farmers and miners; for clergymen and educators; for merchants, musicians and artists. Annie Norris, 67-year-old farm laborer's wife, received the British Empire Medal for "unremitting care" of child evacuees, as did a deaf & dumb air-raid warden, who divines air raids by the warning vibrations of a piece of metal held in his hand...
...Count has already won 16 races, earned $250,300, made a runaway farce of top 1943 three-year-old events. The final test of ability will come when he is entered in races against older horses like Whirlaway, Alsab, Market Wise and Don Bingo, the four-year-old Argentine colt that ruined Bob Hope's radio scripts when he won the Suburban Handicap for Bing Crosby earlier in the week...
...Lockheed finance company would come in handy. If things work out well, Pacific might even take some transport-finance business away from commercial banks. And one of Lockheed's postwar bets is "Connie," the famed 52-passenger, four-motored stratosphere transport that flew its first test for the Army early this year (TIME, Jan. 18). Meanwhile, an additional capital investment should make Lockheed's huge tax bill look a little less like the national debt...