Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others remembered that Wallace and Labor Secretary Schwellenbach have recently been in frequent consultation over the forthcoming labor-management conference, beginning on Nov. 5. Had Henry Wallace deliberately tossed up a debatable idea to test public reaction...
...revolution by decree. Neither the revolution nor the revolutionary government had yet been subject to the test of direct, secret elections. Last week there were elections of a sort in Czechoslovakia. But they had been arranged by the only four parties permitted to function. They were conducted at party meetings. The vote was by public acclamation; the purpose was to choose electors who in turn would choose members of a Provisional Parliament. The seats in this Parliament had already been allotted by the controlling parties...
Hoping to improve its citizens' teeth, Newburgh, N.Y. is fluorinating its water supply. Last week another such town-wide test was announced: Pleasantville, N.Y. (pop. 4,357) home of The Reader's Digest, plans to try ultraviolet lamps in its three schools, seven churches and one movie to see if the rays will reduce colds, measles, mumps, etc. Nearby Mount Kisco, about the same size-and lampless-will compare notes with Pleasantville for the three years the experiment runs...
Under the interested eyes of its sponsors-the County Health Department, the Milbank Memorial Fund, the University of Pennsylvania and General Electric, which makes the lamps-the Pleasantville test is being supervised by Dr. Mildred Wells. Dr. Wells has doubts about how much good the lamps will do. She knows that children can confuse the issue by swapping diseases in stores, at play, in their homes...
...last week's Journal, of the American Medical Association, Philadelphia's Dr. Erich Urbach described a few patients who evidently had diabetes, but whose symptoms were only skin deep. Both blood and urine were normal, but their skins broke out, or itched, and gave a high sugar test. The diagnostic clincher: their skins cleared up after diabetic treatment (insulin and diet...