Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Third Ballot. This will be the make-or-break point for Dewey. He must either get far ahead, far enough never to be seriously challenged, or he loses the race. The swing to Vandenberg is the test; it may well be started by big blocs of votes from Stassen's following. This is also the point of greatest pressure on the large delegations, which hold the key to nomination. If Bob Taft fails to hold his strength, Illinois' Governor Dwight Green, who is eager to be Vice President, might decide to flip over his state...
...Flying Wing YB-49 is the second to be built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc. (the first has been undergoing test flights since last October). A queer, tailless bird, the YB-49 is powered by eight jet engines, with a thrust roughly equivalent to 32,000 h.p., making it the most powerful bomber in the world and one of the fastest...
...hundred fifty Medical School students left their test tubes and cadavers for the last time today as the annual Commencement exercises were held in Tercentenary Theater...
...revenue had forced the Long Island to enter a new field-supplying daily comic features to 482 newspapers. General Manager David E. Smucker was made to say: "The newspapers will have to pay for the funny features which the Long Island has hitherto supplied them without cost. A ... test in the Middle West revealed that 89% of the readers rated the Long Island the nation's leading comic institution...
Four in One. Two brothers, Armand and Lucien Roux, both opticians, have spent 17 years at the process, working in their fifth-floor laboratory in a drab building on the Left Bank. Fortnight ago they invited famed Writer-Producer Marcel Pagnol to see some test shots. Greatly excited by what he saw, Pagnol (The Baker's Wife, The Welldigger's Daughter) asked to take some color shots of his own. They turned out so well that he decided to shelve the black-&-white film on Franz Schubert (La Belle Meuniere) which he had just finished, and shoot...