Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test case last week, Lord Atkin dissented from his colleagues' opinion that, under the Emergency Powers (Defense) legislation, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison had the right to detain persons at his own discretion, not subject to court interference...
...Irving Berlin's promotional song, Any Bonds Today?, into the No. 1 spot in every one of the 300,000 coin phonographs of the land. The song (sung by Barry Wood for Victor, played by Kay Kyser for Columbia) is owned by the Treasury Department. A preliminary test in 5,000 Detroit juke boxes upped defense-bond sales in the area...
...anxious to make a deal for two reasons. First, it would assure the Army and Navy of high-test molasses, one of the chief raw materials in making industrial alcohol, which is essential in smokeless powder (TIME, Oct. 13). By purchasing the entire crop, furthermore, the U.S. would avoid future open-market competition-especially with Britain. Already this year such head-to-head bidding has lifted Cuban sugar prices 230% to 2.5? a lb., highest since...
...dreaded "October peak" (TIME, Sept. 29) in railroad traffic passed last week and the railroads came through the test in a breeze. In fact, it wasn't much of a test after all. Highest weekly loadings-922,884 cars-came in the third October week, turned out to be some 25,000 cars less than the railroads themselves had expected. A.A.R.'s slogan ("the railroads are ready") was still untarnished. But the worst may be yet to come...
...plan many a man will retain his hernia and 4F classification rather than be cured and reclassified. Further, the large number of cases caused by malnutrition and improper exercise cannot be handled except in camps similar to the triple-C layouts. England, faced by a like problem, in a test case last year took one thousand rejectees and found that 850 could pass as one hundred per cent fit for military service after twelve months of medical and dental care supplemented by open air, exercise, and adequate food. A similar program should be developed from the president...