Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when it was a cyclone center: Harold Ickes was fighting for control of public power; the big new aluminum plants needed more power fast; copper for new wiring was short and the Army & Navy were screaming for all that was in sight. "Cap" Krug came through the test with colors flying: he did not completely avert power shortages, but he kept the huge new aluminum plants and all other war industries turning. Now he runs WPB's famed "Purp" (raw-materials allocation) plan...
...Tall, lean, fiercely mustached Brigadier General Frank O'Driscoll Hunter, 47, the new fighter-command chief. "Monk" Hunter loves fighter planes, even though he spent nine months in a hospital when one fell apart in a test at 15,000 feet. He has sported his militarissimous mustache since World War I when he became an eight-plane ace, was continually cited for ferocity: "On patrol he encountered six monoplanes. He immediately attacked...
...This latest assault on human freedom is, in a profound sense, a searching test for nations and for individuals. There is no surer way for men and for nations to show themselves unworthy of liberty than, by supine submission and refusal to fight, to render more difficult the task of those who are fighting for the preservation of human freedom. There is no surer way for men and for nations to show themselves worthy of liberty than to fight for its preservation, in any way that is open to them, against those who would destroy...
Army Pack Test Given New Freshmen...
...actual results of the conditioning program will be scientifically measured on a large scale this summer. On June 6 and 27, 700 entering Freshmen were given a physical efficiency test now called the Army Pack Test. After ten weeks they will again undergo the same examination, furnishing data upon which to judge the progress of the present program...