Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fade. In Maurertown, Va., the town decided its test blackout had been a success after an inter-city bus overlooked it in the dark, carried a passenger five miles beyond his destination...
Manhattan, dimmed out for the duration, blacked out completely one night last week, for a 20-minute test period. From across the East River, under Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan's 205,000 acres looked like a deserted city (see cut). But viewed from above, the city seemed to have vanished between its two starlit rivers...
...Coal rationing was postponed until the Government could test the effect of a publicity campaign for voluntary rationing...
...fluorescent test which tells surgeons whether or not to amputate was described last week at New York Medical College by Drs. Kurt Lange & Linn John Boyd...
...foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation in the leg. But if the blood supply is choked, the limb or hernia remains dark, must be amputated at once. This test, the doctors said, should avoid unnecessary surgery, thus reduce the 50% mortality rate for strangulated hernia resections...