Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Army's Flying Fortresses (four-engined B-17 bombers) are famed among flying men for their long record of safety and reliability. The first B-17 cracked up and burned on test, but since the first Flying Fortress was delivered to the Air Corps, B-17s have flown about 8,000,000 miles, made many a long hop, without a single crash, through three and a half years. Up to last week most serious damage any of the big fellows had had was a buckled landing gear. Last week the spell was broken. Flying toward the mist-shrouded...
...planes, the key material is not steel but aluminum. Already harassed by an anti-trust suit that predated even Thurman Arnold, Aluminum Co. of America faced a much more important test of social responsibility in 1940. It entered 1941 with a 380,000,000-lb. market, enough to keep it at capacity. But latest forecast for 1942 is that aircraft alone would need 300,000,000 Ib. It was announced that Aluminum Co. by then would have 825,000,000 Ib. of capacity...
Ultimate beneficiaries of a confidence boom are the consumers. For a time, excitedly watching their spending theory get its first real test, some New Dealers boasted that consumption would get the long end of this boom too. But 1940 killed any hope that Defense spending might be a short cut to plenty and graceful living. The imminence of rationing in steel, in aluminum, in tools, in a dozen lesser consumer-goods necessities made 1941 look like an uncomfortable year. In 1940, consumers did benefit; 1940 produced more guns and more butter. But 1941 would have to produce still more guns...
Recently Dr. Frank Lappin Horsfall Jr. of the Rockefeller Institute made a vaccine from Influenza A and the virus which causes distemper in dogs. He hopes it will confer immunity for at least three months from all types of flu. Last week a test group of doctors and nurses in Los Angeles County General Hospital volunteered for vaccination. About 100,000 persons in selected communities throughout the U. S. have also been vaccinated. The next few weeks may provide a sure test of the vaccine, for the epidemic, already waning in the West, seemed to be moving east at week...
...stocking feet, dictating at the top of her voice. Her notes are usually unintelligible to anyone but herself. Recent sample: "Willie going to war. Catalina and sleep. Stinkey Pinky. Fred. Claudette. He has to have three steps to get on the love. Betcha heights after ride. Berlin. Test Pilot. Marie Antoinette. Mrs. Chauncey Alcott. Biggest sin is not knowing who directing...