Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both party caucuses adjourned without action on three major issues that will really test Administration leadership: i) extension of reciprocal trade agreements; 2) extension of Lend-Lease; 3) broadening of Social Security coverage. Rabid Republican partisans and Democratic conservatives may be tempted to wage a political fight on all three. (There are already demands for a Lend-Lease investigation-inspired apparently more by Congressional dislike of Harry Hopkins than of Lend-Lease.) But level heads of both parties wanted no partisan disruption of the war effort...
...Elaine [who instigated the first Pan-American Conference in Washington in 1889] the principal character of Act III; and one of America's greatest, Franklin D. Roosevelt, is the hero of Act IV." In Roosevelt's administration "the Good Neighor Policy had been put to the test. . . . For the first time in the history of the Western Hemisphere, we of Latin America may confidently clasp the open hand extended us by a President of the United States...
Above the thin shimmering water-slash of a rising moon, a U.S. Flying Fortress thundered into the Jap harbor at Rabaul one night several months ago to make the first test in the South Pacific of a new technique-"skip-bombing...
...first test had been a success. When the Fortress swung back, the ship was gone in a moonslick littered with wreckage. The raider made for a cruiser, splashed three bombs into the water not a hundred feet from her, saw them hurtle to her side, watched her heel over in a spreading pool of oil after the bombs burst. A searchlight beam burst from the shore, probed high in the sky. A few A.A. guns chattered. But the Fortress was clean away. Climbing to 5,000, she dropped her last bombs on a seaplane tender in the harbor...
...front in the Constellation was scholarly Eddie Allen, famed big-plane test pilot (whose hand on the controls cuts first-flight insurance rates in half). Methodically he got his engines started, warmed them, taxied out onto the field...