Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test of Republican sentiment, the list of signers to Willkie's manifesto was inconclusive. As a move in the struggle to shift Republican policy away from Isolationism, it promised to be historic. Said Pundit Arthur Krock: "[Willkie] had been marching so long and obediently in the President's foreign policy column . . . that those at the head no longer kept an eye on him. . . . What, therefore, was the surprise and embarrassment of the Generalissimo and his staff when the follower dashed in front of the leader with a following of his own. . . . Mr. Willkie struck at the President...
...long caterpillar of cloud last week wound over the drought-baked hills of Fort Benning, Ga. Within its dusty, choking interior moved a new kind of U.S. fighting team, facing its first test...
...Fourth Division, transformed from a motorized outfit into a division part armored, part motorized, was being tested as model for the infantry division of 1942. It was the U.S. Army's experiment to find the best type of unit to do the all-important job of following armored spearheads. The test showed that an outfit like the Fourth, plowing along in support of a drive by an armored division, can go in when the armored division is stopped and hold what has been...
...test was a problem in logistics (troop movement), worked out by Major General George S. Patton, corps commander for the exercise. One afternoon the Fourth bivouacked in the Georgia hills, routing out buzzing coveys of quail to hide their machines under bush and scrub growth. Somewhere north of them the Second went into action against a mythical foe. At dawn the Second was moving north and the Fourth was in support...
...terms of the problem, the Second was finally stopped by the enemy. Then the Fourth's test began. Its commander, Brigadier General Fred Clute Wallace, was told to move up, relieve the Second. Hitch was that the country roads were little better than cow paths, that the Second would clutter them aplenty moving to the rear. There were to be no traffic jams for airplanes to bomb...