Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the test rapidly effective, General Marshall wanted authority to rip away the red tape which hedges many an unqualified officer. By law, officers who are found unfit by reclassification ("B") boards may cling to a long and cumbersome appeal procedure before they are finally ousted. Congress last week was asked to cut this cackle, by giving final power to remove the unfit, without appeal or palaver, to a new board of five or more General Staff officers...
...colonels, recommended the best of them for temporary promotions to colonelcies. Most of these promotions (like most of the head-chopping) will be made on the basis of actual performance in this summer's field maneuvers. These games are not war, but to many an officer now on test they are hell...
Last week, while the wind whipped in briskly from the Pacific, she did what her makers knew she could do. Major Stanley Umstead, the Air Corps's crack, cigar-chewing test pilot, climbed aboard; his crew of six trailed after him. Stanley Umstead started the four engines from left to right, kicking up a great williwaw of dust as he turned them up. He wheeled the Gargantuan bomber down the field, swung her into the wind, gave her the coal. Rolling hugely down the runway, she picked up her skirts slowly. But she was off, wobbling...
...favorite new rule-compulsory competitive bidding for utility securities -flunked its first test last week. But it was not the rule's fault. Next day it got another test, passed with flying colors...
...clear defeat, the test was no triumph for competitive bidding. One company had swallowed the whole bond issue-the very thing that SEC had hoped such bidding might obviate. Dealers and investors outside New York, who have for years complained that they weren't getting a fair slice of the best issues from the big Eastern syndicates, this time got not even a sliver...