Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, the printers voted 2,330 to 61 to strike-the first big test of the Taft-Hartley Act. A few hours later the strike was on. The printers promised 24-hour-a-day picket lines around the six Chicago dailies. The publishers promised they would print anyway, by photoengraving. The papers began a frantic scramble to hire typists. The Sun hired 80 and set up day and night shifts. All the papers buckled down to give Chicago its daily news, in spite of the strike...
Vapor Blends. Human beings are harder to test. Their smelling apparatus is deeply buried in the upper nasal passages, where it cannot be blocked off from the vapors by heat-transparent barriers. Beck & Miles hope to lick this problem somehow when they get an infra-red spectrometer for studying the wavelength of fragrances...
...probably find more action than any other place in College, for Barnaby is putting a huge squad of hopefuls through intensive and lengthy drills every afternoon in preparation for the gruelling season which opens next week. His agenda includes at least two outside matches weekly, and, sandwiched in between, test matches among his own team to determine seeding...
...current French government represents the first real attempt by European democracies to organize a nation along U.S. State Department policy lines. It is the first and crucial test of Secretary Marshall's plan to dehydrate world communism. If a rightist government can be made to stick and operate efficiently in a country that traditionally mixes its politics with its wine, then the prospects for successful remote control of other countries such as Italy look very bright...
...Letterman was medical chief of McClellan's Army of the Potomac. He developed the first organized ambulance corps, which passed its first test at the Battle of Antietam. The corps removed from the battlefield, in 24 hours, all of the 12,000 Union and Confederate wounded within the Union lines...