Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...BEST BY TEST-Nazi No-Stop Gasoline Gets More Deaths Per Mile. In actual tests made in Belgium and France, tanks and airplanes using Nazi No-Stop gasoline averaged 5,000 dead men, women and children per mile...
...late 18th Century, when U. S. whiskey taxes came into effect, distillers began the custom of watering liquor. To test alcoholic content, buyers would sprinkle the whiskey over gunpowder, try to light it. If the alcohol content was high enough, the water low enough, the powder would burn. That was "proof." In the U. S. today, proof is double the alcohol content...
...aircraft factories, the docks of London, Harwich and Hull were preliminary targets for Nazi night raiders. Incendiary bombs were showered down after demolition charges to start fires. But the impression was that last week's German raids were chiefly to familiarize squadron leaders with the course and to test Britain's defenses. When unrestricted air bombing begins, with destruction raining down by hundreds of tons, last week's raids by comparison will seem like flea bites...
...MOONLIGHT-Helen McCloy - Morrow ($2). Fairly cerebral story of murder at Yorkville University, where Victim Dr. Konradi, an Austrian, had found refuge and money for biochemical research. When suspects refuse a lie-detector test, a psychiatric assistant to the D. A. does his stuff...