Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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United Dye and were illegally manipulating the company's stock. On the basis of that probe, a federal grand jury took over in 1959. The jury was particularly interested in four men. Three of them, Samuel Garfield, Irving Pasternak and Allard Roen, were Las Vegas operators; the fourth, Allen K. Swann, was their attorney...
...course of his investigation, Kefauver also made some important Democratic enemies. His probe into corruption in Illinois cost Majority Leader Scott Lucas his Senate seat...
...rang true. United Air Lines technicians use basically the same principle today when they bombard jet turbine blades with electronically generated sound to see if the blades resonate at a frequency that indicates there is no danger of breakage. Westinghouse uses ultrasonics -super high-frequency sound waves - to probe right through big forgings in the rotors of its giant $2 million turbine generators and detect air pockets or cracks inside the metal; since it began this test, Westinghouse has not had a single forging break on the job. An ultrasonic tester used by Republic Steel can measure the thickness...
...earth may have disappeared in just such a manner for the Russians' Mars Probe 1. Last week the Soviets announced that the vehicle failed to keep its directional antenna pointed accurately toward home when its orientation system failed...
...Even the ups and downs of Soviet space technology were shrouded in uncertainty last week. Moscow launched a fourth moon probe, but with typical secrecy did not reveal its mission. The size of Lunik IV (1½ tons) led some Western scientists to believe it was designed to carry out a soft landing on the moon. But after 3 ½ days in flight, Lunik IV missed the moon by 5,281 miles. Was Lunik IV a flop? Tass reported only that experiments "had been carried out," then curtly added it would have nothing more to report about the flight...