Word: probed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special needs of blind people. This work took him to Haskins Laboratories, New York City, and later to M.I.T., where he concentrated on practical gadgets. The one demonstrated last week, the only one to be completed before Dr. Witcher's death last month, is called an Audible Vision Probe. It is about as big as a short, fattish fountain pen, and a thin wire leads from it to an earphone. At one end of the probe is a small lens, and inside is a photocell that is sensitive to differences of light and shade...
Close on the heels of the influence-peddling probe came the Reconstruction Finance Corp. scandals and a whole raft of new names. The Lustron Corp., a manufacturer of prefabricated houses, had received RFC loans totaling $37.5 million, much of which had been approved by Loan Examiner E. Merl Young, who resigned and emerged as an $18,000-a-year Lustron official, was later convicted of perjury (18 months in jail). Young's wife Lauretta, a White House secretary until April 1951, received a $9,000 mink coat paid for by a lawyer representing firms that longed for RFC loans...
...investigation of the tax-collecting BIR led inevitably to a probe of the tax-prosecuting U.S. Justice Department. On every television screen was the smiling face of Assistant Attorney General (in charge of tax prosecution) Theron Lamar Caudle, whose barefoot wit kept investigators in convulsions as he blandly described rascality (including his own) in government. Not until this year did Caudle get his comeuppance: along with Matt Connelly he was convicted of tax fraud conspiracy...
...world, no man was better fitted than Nobel Prizewinner Pauling to probe this problem. In 1949 he crashed through the barrier separating chemistry from medicine when he headed a team of researchers who pinpointed the cause of sickle-cell anemia. Medical men had long known that this disease, common among African peoples (and their U.S. descendants), was inherited in some fashion, but that was all they knew. Pauling showed that the abnormal, short-lived, sickle-shaped red blood cells, characteristic of the disease, contained Hemoglobin S, a hitherto unknown form of hemoglobin that differs in molecular structure from the normal...
...Stand Still. When they swarmed over the X2, engineers found welcome news. Made of heat-resistant stainless steel and nickel alloy with a specially tempered windshield designed to withstand 1,000° F. temperatures, the X-2 was built to probe the "thermal thicket" of supersonic speeds where the heat generated by friction with the atmosphere can turn metal into putty. But there were no thorns in the thicket for the X2. She was untouched...