Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princeton, ex-G.I. Allen F. Colley, 23, founded a Save Capitalism Committee. Its key to salvation: profit-sharing to make labor and capital work together. The president of a New York building materials company offered his firm as a laboratory to test the theory. Colley & Co. were also trying to sell the idea to neighboring colleges, hoped it would catch on as well as Princeton's once-famed Veterans of Future Wars...
...long for this worrld." He is also the newest and least-developed of Fred's characters, but as Donald reads the role, it contains some winning bits of brannigan. A favorite Cassidy wheeze: having resolved to give up the stuff, he puts himself to the test by trying to pass Kerrigan's Kosy Korner without dropping in. After a desperate struggle he makes it-and promptly returns to Kerrigan's to celebrate his moral victory with a snootful...
...fashion in hopping was vitamin B-1 injections, administered 24 hours before a race. Some of the crooked gyps believed that an older method-benzedrine-worked too, and did not show up in a saliva test the first time it was given. Everybody wanted to collect purse money ($525 to a winner) before the park fell on its face. Track stewards ruled three gyps off the track for "hopping...
...there were those who thought that FCC had not done too well, that some way should have been found to let CBS test the public's reaction to color. As the New York Times snapped: "The public will wonder what has become of free enterprise. It will also wonder if television must be monopolized by the company that has had the foresight to develop a system of color transmission and reception which will be acceptable...
Touched off by the Canadian Red spy eases, a mounting suspicion of anything left of center has finally shifted into hysterical overdrive with the recent presidential proclamation of a loyalty test for all government employees. The order is couched in stark terms of treason and sedition and proposes to weed out the disloyal elements in the Civil Service. Hopefully flavored with the axiom that all the men serving a government must be faithful, the current tests seem to be the product of a bitter witch hunt rather than the outgrowth of natural security measures...