Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boeing Aircraft Co. last week test-flew its new B-17E bomber, a better-armed, slicker version of the Flying Fortress (B-17Ds) with which the R.A.F. is now bombing Europe from heights over 30,000 feet-too high to be hit by ack-ack, or to be reached by most German pursuit planes...
...When Test Pilot Eddie Allen brought B-17E down after 20 minutes in the air, Boeing made a proud announcement: while B-17D production goes ahead "Es" are on the line, too, will shortly begin to roll...
...clinic. The system is vastly different from the old European routine of slipshod examinations and yellow passports: in San Antonio the girls are given modern treatment. On the second floor they fill out records telling a few facts about their customers. Then they are given a blood test. If infected, they are treated at once to make the diseases non-catching. For gonorrhea, they get sulfathiazole tablets; for syphilis, slow injections of neoarsphenamine and bismuth. Even if not infected, all of the 425 known prostitutes in town report to the clinic once a week...
...protects her from venereal disease, and if she is already infected it protects her partner. The oil (called Progonasyl) acts as a physical barrier as well as a germ killer, was developed several years ago by a group of scientists at Tulsa, Okla. This is the first mass test of its efficacy...
Alton (Ill.) Boxboard Co. decided to try the idea to the tune of a $25,000 advertising budget. Their St. Louis test campaign upped collections 25%. With these results to back him up, Block soon sold the industry on the scheme...