Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news. The U.S. hailed General MacArthur's great-hearted stand in Bataan, studied with savage satisfaction the Navy's detailed announcement of the raid on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. And the great U.S. industrial machine hummed ever faster in its war of production. In Baltimore a test pilot took up the first bomber powered by a Ford-built motor. Americans, unbeatable at making things, were beginning to make the things they needed. The nation grimly heeded WPBoss Donald M. Nelson's statement that the "golden months" were gone, but that "ten silver months" were left...
That was not much time in which to decide whether or not he would live up to the words which A. P. Correspondent Yates McDaniel had expressed just five days before: "For the defenders, this was the test of tests. Alternatives were simple and unqualified: death or victory...
...from one job to another, be it a job of plant construction or a job of shipbuilding. By "fluid units" 1 mean units which can be altered in size to fit any particular need. Any job shall have working on it the maximum possible number of men and the test of whether a job is being properly run will be that there will always be a few men standing around with nothing to do. This may seem like gross in-efficiency but if you grant that "one plane today is worth ten planes a year from today," then the method...
Progressive Education has passed its high-school test. An unofficial supreme court of educators, delivering its verdict in the famed Eight-Year Study this week, found that graduates of Progressive preparatory schools were more successful in college than their contemporaries. Many considered its report (The Story of the Eight-Year Study; Harper; $1.75) a death sentence for the traditional system of U.S. high-school education...
...March, the Committee is going to give a play stressing the common soldier's part at Valley Forge; and they also expect to put four radio series, which are now being completed, on the air for 13-week test periods in the near future, stated Fred Ossauna, Jr. '41, executive secretary of the Committee...