Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tumble Creek, along the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon's Willamette (rhymes with damn it) National Forest, Engineer Flynn's power saws last week stood a conclusive test. Called in to fight a forest fire, the Forest Service took along two power saws, 90 fallers armed with axes and ordinary crosscut saws, pitted them against each other...
...TIME, July 7, "A Laboratory Flies": I am surprised that the U.S. Army would permit a picture to be taken of a test pilot with a cigar in his mouth. What's the answer...
with human nature, accept the situation. Many military planes have ash trays in them. But as for crack Test Pilot Stanley Umstead, if Reader Epstein had scrutinized his picture closely (see cut], she might have seen that his cigar has no ash on it. Umstead smokes a good deal, but often sticks an unlighted cigar in his mouth and simply gnaws...
...scope of the Ferrying Command's job. At Detroit, at Nashville, at Dayton and other points it had set up stations manned by crack engineering crews. Their job was to fit transient bombers with items of equipment (instruments, armament, etc.) not available when they finished their last test flights at the factories. To man the bombers, the Ferrying Command already had around 200 air crews, was reputedly planning to run the total up to 600 before long. For this expansion it was training fliers at Albuquerque, N.Mex., and at Barksdale Field...
...R.A.F. are a breezy bunch. They think they can keep the offensive. They think, very brashly, that the beginning of the Battle of Germany is the beginning of the end of Germany. This week, with the Luftwaffe coming back hard from Russia, their confidence may be put to the test...