Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the war began, Labor joined the Liberals and Tories in a coalition Government. Now the Party is thoroughly enmeshed in the coalition web. Apparently, the Laborites are afraid to test their voting strength by ending the political truce which has left Britain without a general election since...
...test of a new and speedy way to make airfield runways came when a New England airdrome for fighters was used for Flying Fortresses. The runways, made of a mixture of soil and cement, came through handsomely, stood up under the beating of B-17 landings as well as they had taken the lighter swoops of P-40s. Thus a short cut to hard-surface roads as well as airdromes was war-proved...
Tomorrow the World (by James Gow & Arnaud d'Usseau; produced by Theron Bamberger) turns an appalling postwar problem into interesting theater. Foreseeing the day when 12,000,000 Nazi-bred children will have to be humanized, it does an advance test-tube job on one of them. Son of an American mother who died when he was a baby, and of a German liberal killed off in a concentration camp, twelve-year-old Emil Bruckner comes - somewhat inexplicably in wartime - to live with relatives...
...high-silhouette Mio tank destroyer, announced with typical fanfare by manufacturers' (General Motors and Ford) publicity men only last month, has failed to stand the test of combat in North Africa. The Army is still seeking a lower, faster...
...Production of mortars-both the 60-mm. and 81-mm. - will increase rapidly. U.S. mortars have stood the test...