Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Federal Judge Ben Moore opened a chink in the Taft-Hartley Act this week. He ruled that the act's ban against labor unions spending funds for political purposes was an "unconstitutional abridgement" of civil rights, and dismissed a test case against Phil Murray (TIME, Feb. 23). Next stop: the Supreme Court...
...Sibley and Albert L. Lehninger of the University of Chicago. They found that whenever an active tumor is present, the blood contains an abnormally large amount of an enzyme called zymohexase; when the tumor is removed, the amount of zymohexase returns to normal. Some day, they thought, the test might be valuable for detecting human cancer...
Perils Ahead. Dangers, both immediate and long-range, were scarcely dispelled by these hopeful actions. Finland was threatened today; Austria might be next; Italy would go through a crucial test in its April 18 elections. Wherever the Communists took power by election, they made sure, as in Poland, that they would never lose it by election. And when they lost elections, as in Czechoslovakia, they sought other roads to power. The democracies had to win every kind of contest every time in every country. The Communists only had to win once; then the country was withdrawn from contest, and could...
...presumably U.S. rocketmen are making progress. To judge from the photograph (the only information released), the Aerobee is much slimmer and lighter than the V2. It is probably an experimental model built, not to make any impressive altitude records, but to test improvements in motive power and control...
...this first test is successful, presumably the U.T. will offer other foreign films from time to time. It has a great variety to draw on from the numbers that reach New York but can never fit into Boston's under-theatered schedule, and the entertainment would certainly be on a much higher level than the customary U.T. feature. J.A.D...