Word: probed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less Talking, More Facts. Day before, in a stroke which inspired confidence in & out of Washington, Franklin Roosevelt had made these three men his Rubber Committee. Their chairman: Baruch. Their job: to probe all synthetic rubber possibilities, weigh the whole question in relation to war needs and the supply of raw materials, report back quickly to the President. To give them a clear hand, President Roosevelt had vetoed a bill-shoved through Congress by the farm bloc -which would have set up an independent agency to make synthetic rubber from agricultural and forest products...
Newsmen write almost anything. They scour the University for interesting or queer professors. They can cover athletics, talk to coaches. They interview backstage. They probe and investigate and expose. All this is open to the news candidate...
...purpose of this column will be to investigate and probe the various aspects of the theatre in America today, to look for some rational standard of criticism, to show the intrinsic strengths and weaknesses of contemporary drama, to revaluate certain productions, to help, in some measure, the continuance and growth of a dynamic and energetic form of entertainment...
...doctors probe wounds for bullets and shell fragments, pay the Red Cross $5 every time they cannot find any. They also bet on the type of fragments they will dig out of wounds. Among their findings (all made in the U.S.): parts of Ford automobiles; nuts & bolts. Out of one soldier's body came a Singer sewing machine screwdriver. One night when the doctors and nurses had amputations on every table, they donated their own blood...
...large the report was sound and thorough, though its value was lessened by the sensational and politically tinged charges made by Senator Truman in his summary of it to the Senate. The Missourian, perhaps out of his anxiety to get a new $100,000 appropriation to continue his probe, weakened his own work by resorting to claptrap generalizations, even by gross errors-such as an assertion that more than half of U.S. total pursuit-plane production in 1942 would be of mediocre models...