Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy will get a chance to test its high-flying Banshee fighter against the Air Force's B-36 after all-but not in precisely the way rebellious Navy airmen had hoped. Instead of fighting it out with camera guns at 40,000 feet, they will have to leave the decision up to the 18,000 vacuum tubes of the Army's $400,000 electronic brain at the Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground...
...Grimson wants to test banthine in detail for another six months. Then, if it still looks good, he will ask the Food & Drug Administration to release it for general...
...wants immediate public field trials to test the various systems. CBS declares that it is "perfectly willing to compete with any color TV system any place, any time." But it insists that "a system [its own] can be picked now on the basis of its known performance." Extensive trials, argues CBS, are unnecessary and would be costly and confusing...
What Lawyer Heyman Zimel of Paterson, N.J. wanted, to make a foolproof test case, were protests from 1) the parent of a schoolchild, and 2) a New Jersey taxpayer. Mrs. Henry O. Klein, ex-Roman Catholic and longtime Secularist, filled the bill for the parent: her 17-year-old daughter Gloria was a student at the Hawthorne High School. Donald R. Doremus, a mechanic of East Rutherford and director of the Secularists of New Jersey, was glad to protest as a taxpayer. With Lawyer Zimel, they filed their case before Superior Court Judge Robert H. Davidson...
...lieutenants (one a wealthy Easterner) are in love with one girl, and she is a spoiled brat who turns out all right in the end. Ford has a big sergeant who drinks Irish whiskey and demolishes a half dozen or so of his comrades in a friendly bar-room test of strength--one of the three interior scenes in the whole picture. These scenes, in the best tradition of the Western, have never been done better. This movie is a very particular kind of classic. If you like that kind...