Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steady, grim and forbidding in a wind-chopped sea, the new 35,000-ton U.S.S. North Carolina last week took a cruel final test such as no man-of-war had ever met before: two and three-quarter tons of powder exploded aboard her, flinging twelve tons of shells miles across the water...
Fortnight ago this 16th battleship of the U.S. fleet-the first to be added in 18 years-completed her speed tests. Last week she headed out to sea for the toughest tests of all: gunfire that would show how well she could stand the shock of her own battle punch. Many a navyman still remembers how some years ago one famed U.S. battleship fired her forward turret on her test run and spent six months in the navy yard getting her damage repaired. And now North Carolina was out to prove the hard way that she could take a slug...
Salvos and Broadsides. Her firing tests began a few hours after she was out of sight of land. Like test pilots feeling out a new airplane, her builders and crew tried her slowly, firing each gun singly. There were no targets. Between salvos, technicians topside and below took readings from strain and blast gauges, many another gadget that would show how North Carolina writhed when her guns...
Fifteen minutes dragged into a half-hour, close to an hour, as the technicians with their gauges settled themselves and made their equipment ready for the test. How would she take it? Would she heel to starboard before the recoil of her broadside? Would it rip her guts? Would the blast dash the laymen observers from the eyes of the ship into...
...Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Metro Goldwyn-Mayer) is such a pretentious resurrection of Robert Louis Stevenson's ghoulish classic that it might well serve as a final mausoleum for the bones of the ill-fated Harley Street medico and his test-tube twin...