Word: probed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consumers would pay more for pork in 1957, and possibly for better-grade beef. Last week, alarmed by the burst of price increases, Washington began taking notice and action. Two congressional committees laid plans to investigate the hike in gasoline prices, and the Department of Justice launched a third probe into a possible price-fixing conspiracy. In an attempt to keep sugar prices from soaring higher, the Agriculture Department again increased sugar-marketing quotas, the second time in less than a month. But as consumer buying and business spending (expected to rise another 10% in 1957 first quarter) continued...
...probe was not likely to prove a real hardship for the ex-President. His children have already reached Paris, and he is expected to set up housekeeping with them there within the month. Bank accounts in Boston, Miami, Paris and Geneva should enable him to live in the manner he has become accustomed...
Under Siple's direction, four meteorologists, a glaciologist, a seismologist and upper-atmosphere specialists will dig deep into the antarctic's frozen crust and probe far into its icy, gale-lashed upper atmosphere. While they pursue their specialties, other scientists will be working at six other U.S. bases around the rim of the 5,000,000-sq.-mi. continent. Like the polar scientists of ten other nations now assaulting Antarctica, all are participants in the International Geophysical Year studies of 1957-58. The I.G.Y's objective: a free exchange of the newly gained scientific information among...
When a blind person wants to find, for instance, the windows of a room, he swings his probe around and listens for a faint ticking sound in his earphone. The faster the ticking the stronger the light that is reaching the photocell...
Most promising uses for the probe are in connection with a blind person's job. The probe may enable him to read meters, gauges and thermometers, locate lights on telephone switchboards and tell the color of test solutions during chemical analyses. Dunn Engineering has built 50 of the probes, which have been turned over to New York's American Foundation for the Blind for practical testing...