Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be specialty rubbers; 60,000, Standard Oil's famed butyl; 40,000, Du Font's long-established neoprene-strategic for self-sealing gas tanks, oil-resistant hose lines, etc. The rest will be what chemists designate as Buna-S, which has recently given road-test performances up to 130-160% of the best wearing qualities of natural rubber. The emergence of Buna-S almost unquestionably means that natural rubber will be a deader commodity at the end of this war than natural nitrates were at the end of the last.* The estimated cost of the Buna program...
...waste in such motor tests is prodigious. A 2,200 h.p. engine burns up some 2,000 gallons during a twelve-hour test. And plane engines cannot burn anything but precious 100 octane...
...raid wardens and the special Navy ARP platoons, as wen as the faculty and student members of the civilian defense organization at Harvard functioned efficiently in yesterday's test air raid...
Wickard's plea and promise this week seemed on the way to fulfillment. No prophet, practical, dirt-farming Claude Wickard might have made a prophecy, too, about the post-war possibilities contained in row on row of bottles in Department of Agriculture laboratories-test tubes of white, yellow, green, grey, brown powders that, doused with water, again turn into Irish and sweet potatoes, spinach, cabbage, carrots. Thus it may be possible for U.S. housewives to store a 2-3 months' food supply in a kitchen-drawer...
...once, a good part of the long-suffering British public stirred rebelliously. Shopkeepers complained of tear-gassed sales. London commuters called it ridiculous to hold a gas test at the height of the rush hour. The London Daily Mail, playing up the gassing under such headlines as Council Gassed on Orders of A.R.P. and Wedding Party Collapses in Gas Test, demanded: "Need this...