Word: inspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finder. An X-ray machine that shows up tiny insects in stored grain was announced by du Pont. Using the machine, one man can inspect 80 grain samples a day, v. 25 to 50 samples with the old method of cracking open kernels and floating the particles in mineral oil or gasoline. Price: $2,300 for X-ray unit and darkroom equipment...
...become a flyer. One night a little later he dreamed of coursing the skies in the softly lit, walnut-paneled cabin of an enormous flying machine?a cabin he recognized with a start 30 years later when he went aboard one of his own four-engine Sikorsky Clippers to inspect a job of interior decoration done by Pan American Airways...
Kennel Show. In Kansas City, Mo., after the Star mistakenly published his reward offer of $1,500 (instead of $15) for the return of his pet pointer Queenie, William C. Boosman was compelled to inspect some 500 dogs of all descriptions, finally in desperation rushed out and found Queenie himself...
...mixed up with buried historical treasures when it started a smaller, 450-mile pipeline from New Mexico to Arizona three years ago. The National Park Service, backed by a federal law barring the disturbance of Indian relics, asked El Paso's President Paul Kayser, 65, to let archaeologists inspect the right-of-way before the bulldozers chewed up any valuable finds. Kayser, alert to a chance for some unusual public-relations, agreed to more than that. He promised that El Paso would pay all the costs and underwrite a follow-up study to boot...
...keep the contest from being an illegal lottery, the Mirror was careful to specify: "It is not necessary to buy copies of the Mirror to win an award. You may inspect a copy of the paper free . . ." But all over the Mirror circulation area, and as far away as Miami, Fla. (where a treasure hunter spotted a Lucky Buck originally spent in a White Plains store), people were buying the tabloid to compare its numbers with their dollars. Lucky Bucks not redeemed in seven days lost their magic; after that, they were worth 100 cents...