Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This strategic city was Palembang, a miracle of industrial creation in the jungle, rich in refineries, stored oil and the Indies' only high-test aviation gasoline. Some $100,000,000 and years of labor had been poured into Palembang and its satellite oilfields and towns...
...this week Douglas MacArthur well knew that he was on the threshold of his deadliest test yet. Winston Churchill's announcement of Singapore's fall was not 24 hours old when a terse Philippine communiqué revealed...
...shadow behind the lurid light of Heinrich Himmler, head of all the German police. Himmler's top man for the uniformed police is General Kurt Daluege; for the Gestapo, Heydrich. But Heydrich is much more powerful than Daluege, and he might, if it came to a test, prove more powerful even than Himmler. He knows everything that Himmler knows and he has spies everywhere, even in the lairs of his closest associates. For the time being all three of the police chiefs work in harmony, often against the Army, which hates them and which has, they believe, deliberately sacrificed...
...models will have to be precise to the last detail. Every test that is used to train spotters, gunners, etc. requires exactly scaled models. In training gunners, for example, it is necessary to teach them to recognize whether a ship is going at maximum or at cruising speed, and the only method they have of estimating range is the size of the plane in their ring sights. Since the models are built on the precise scale of 1 to 72 (one inch represents six feet of the actual plane), the model looks to the gunner at 35 feet exactly...
...wants pilot plants to test other noncommercial methods of treating low-grade copper, lead, zinc and other ores. He wants an electro-development laboratory in the Bonneville and Grand Coulee district to experiment with the local geology...