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Charge: Animals inoculated with BCG react to the tuberculin skin test, indication of the presence of tuberculosis germs...
Professor Calmette: In such cases the tuberculin test is not positive. Such treated animals do not develop tuberculosis when inoculated with virulent bacilli...
...breeze of five to ten miles per hour, Weetamoe from ten to fourteen, Yankee from fourteen up. Yet this scale is not completely accurate: Enterprise, with her heaviest mast stepped in, heeled over to an 18-mi. breeze and scooted past the old Resolute in an early test on Long Island Sound. Weetamoe has beaten Enterprise in light air. Whirlwind, prettiest looking of all, will be changed a lot before the final tests beginning...
Small Goddard rockets utilizing this fuel have been weighted, ignited, allowed to rise a measurable distance. Only in this way may accurate rocket data be gathered. Dr. Goddard declines .to confirm reports that he is now building a new giant test rocket, soon to be sent skyward from a Government-loaned field at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass...
...Flagpole Sitting." Capt. John O. Donaldson and Pilot Ole Oleson planned a flight to test the endurance of planes, not of pilots. At Roosevelt Field, L. I. a Stinson monoplane would be flown by relays of relief pilots sent aboard at intervals by a rope ladder dropped from the refuelling plane. The pilot being relieved would drop to earth with a parachute. Last week Director Gilbert G. Budwig of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, refused to sanction the flight, refused to waive the rule requiring aircraft to remain 300 ft. apart in the air. He said...