Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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OVER 3,200 LETTERS, POST CARDS AND TELEGRAMS HAVE JUST BEEN FORWARDED HERE FROM CRUM ELBOW. OVER A THOUSAND WERE RECEIVED BEFORE I LEFT. OUT OF ALL THESE, ONLY FOUR COMMUNICATIONS-TWO LETTERS AND TWO POST CARDS ALL ANONYMOUS, CONTAIN ADVERSE CRITICISM AND ABUSE IN THE RECENT EFFORT TO TEST THE ECONOMIC THEORIES OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND FATHER DIVINE...
...pressure cabin is carrying military and commercial aviation into the substratosphere; Capt. Carl J. Crane, whose radio-controlled plane has completed 160 landings without a hand on the controls; Major Edwin R. Page, in whose laboratories engines with 3,000 h.p. in a single unit soon will be on test; Major George W. Goddard, whose color cameras capable of making pictures at 15,000 ft. altitude and 200 m.p.h. are revolutionizing air reconnaissance. In the army arsenal at Springfield, Mass., is Consulting Engineer John C. Garand, whose semiautomatic, 30-round-per-minute shoulder rifle will, by its increased firepower, vastly...
...completion before Louis Johnson took office. His contributions have been: 1) a notably successful effort to "sell" it to big industrialists; and 2) a supplementary Educational Orders Program, approved by the last Congress, whereby the U. S. will supply expensive dies and tools to pivotal manufacturers to test their facilities and train them in military production. This week Mr. Johnson submitted to President Roosevelt a list of the first items to be manufactured under this program. No. 1 on the list: the infantry's semi-automatic rifle, given preference because during the World War the army could...
...spread was invented by a patient Polish physician, Lazaro Ludovico Zamenhof, who published his work in 1887. His language looks like a Balkan patter, sounds like a Romance patois. Though it runs on rules like rails, it lends itself to precise shades of meaning. In 1921, as a test, the Paris Chamber of Commerce had two Esperantists translate delicate texts of French into Esperanto, then had two others turn them back into French; the final texts were almost identical with the originals. The language has only 16 simple rules of grammar, to which there are no exceptions. Its huge vocabulary...
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