Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of all, the White Committee wanted to turn sympathy for Britain into effective action, to overcome the greatest of aid to dictators - delay, and in Editor White's mind that was to test within the U. S. itself the strength of democratic sentiment, making use of democratic procedures to aid an endangered democracy...
...that he could drive from New York to San Francisco faster than he could travel by train. Although he had never been east of Cheyenne, Daredevil Jenkins scooted across the continent in 85 hr. 20 min. (train time: 100 hr.). So impressed was Studebaker Corp. it hired Jenkins to test its cars. So chagrined were the railroad companies (especially after a red-hot Hearstpaper ribbing), they put on faster transcontinental trains. But Jenkins embarrassed them again in 1931 when he drove a Studebaker, with a top speed of 90 m.p.h., from New York to San Francisco-observing speed laws through...
...Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe faced its first really tough test. German pilots learned at Dunkirk, where R. A. F. definitely established local control, that they and their machines were individually inferior to the British. But the British had not enough planes to maintain superiority all over Britain if the Germans came over in thousands...
Last week, before 7,000 eyewitnesses, the prestige of U. S. sport pickers was put to a test. On Detroit's dog-tiring, tricky Oakland Hills course, Gene Sarazen's "leftouts" teed up against Walter Hagen's "ins" in a two-day challenge match under Ryder Cup rules (four two-ball foursomes, eight singles matches...
...From abroad also came reports of Nazi pressure on the Petain Government to carry out the plans of Air France Transatlantique which got CAA permission in May for experimental non-commercial flights to LaGuardia Field. Application by either Government for U. S. landing rights might well bring the first test of whether the U. S. is going to do business with Hitler...