Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allen ("Buck") La Fever was tired of lifting a cow. On the Borden Company's County Fair program, last Oct. 16, he volunteered to test a legend: he would lift a Jersey calf, Phoebe, once a day, hoping eventually to lift a full-grown cow (TIME, Dec. 17). Last week, after 218 straining days, the pride of Somerville, N.J., failed to umph Phoebe off the ground...
...test his method, Keith raised $1,250,000 from oilmen, built a pilot plant at Olean, N.Y. It produced only ten gallons a day. But this was enough to sell to RFC and the oil companies. Carthage will get Keith's patents royalty-free, but will pay his research firm $100,000 a year for engineering advice on running the plant...
University plans to convert Botanical Garden and Observatory areas into real estate projects designed to help meet the housing shortage problem will face their final test tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, when the Cambridge Planning Board will hold an open meeting in the City Hall to consider the Corporation's request for rezoning of the district...
...clear that on many occasions during the war Conant the chemist and "field agent" was called upon for decisions far removed from the test-tube and University classroom. His firm contention in 1942 that the bomb could shorten the war came at a time when high military officials considered the whole scheme expendable. It was a force behind President Roosevelt's decision to allow the project to grow beyond the blueprint stage. Later in 1942, Conant, as a member of the Baruch Committee, was asked to find an answer to the rubber, shortage, while, as a member of the still...
...entrance. He may have completed a college course, or he may not have completed grade school. The University desires unions to send men of intelligence and practical experience who are devoted to the labor movement and who expect to spend their careers in the service of labor. The best test of a man's qualifications, according to the Fellowship faculty, is a record of successful experience serving labor...