Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit was a white shirt, bow tie, suspenders, gray trousers, and a long cigar. The works consisted of darting up and down a 45% grade, growling through a fifty-yard stretch...
Theodora Roosevelt, granddaughter of the late "Teddy," by his third son, Archibald, made her professional debut as a ballet dancer at Bar Harbor. . .Settled in her first home with globe-girdling James, Romelle Schneider Roosevelt took and passed her driver's test at Bethesda, Md. . . . In the Columbia River waters, where Franklin D. Roosevelt failed to get a nibble in 1934, daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger hooked four Royal Chinook salmon. Young grandson "Buzzie" got one. . .In Toronto at the International Typewriting Marathon, typists who copied the complete works of Shakespeare in 1939, H. G. Wells's The Outline...
Plymouth has switched from aluminum to cast-iron pistons, is using more of Chrysler's new Amola steel-a high test metal using no imported alloys. Their prices still unannounced (rumor: a $100 boost), Plymouths come in eleven body styles (13 last year), and such defense-conscious colors as Airwing Grey, Battalion Beige, Artillery Green. Horsepower is up from 87 to 95 with no up in gas consumption...
...impression of the showings: this season's clothes are not much different from the best clothes of yesterday, have no new magic. On their first real test U.S. designers pass-with a somewhat better mark than B.M.I.'s tunesmiths did at the beginning of the radio war-but get no A for originality...
...longest Army tour for volunteers: four and one-half years). Despite this stiff requirement, the Navy is already doing very well, recruiting at the rate of 10,300 per month. To run this up to 15,000 it is expanding an experiment in small-town newspaper advertising for recruits. Test advertisements in Missouri, Iowa, Indiana doubled the monthly enlistment rate in those States, will soon appear in 13 more States (Nebraska, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee). But the basic appeal is still the same: see the world...