Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Steel Test Case. Before WLB was the "Little Steel" wage dispute, brewing and bubbling since last February. The C.I.O. wanted $1 a day more for its 157,000 Little Steel workers. A WLB fact-finding panel, considering only the simpler arithmetic of the demand, found that the companies could afford it: they are so busy now with war orders that all but $2,850,000 of the $47,500,000 annual boost would have come out of excess-profits taxes...
...such as this are becoming part of the folklore of U.S. industry. Their author is a Los Angeles psychologist who rejoices in the name of Doncaster George Humm. Dr. Humm, who took for his mission in life the job of fitting square pegs into square holes, created a "temperament test" which has made him one of the busiest men in the U.S. war effort. Some 2,000,000 workmen have taken his test, and 225 corporations would not think of making a change in personnel without consulting...
...test (called the Humm-Wadsworth Temperament Scale) is the stock in trade of Dr. Humm and his partner, Guy W. Wadsworth Jr., a vice president of Southern California Gas Co. They launched their personnel service after they had examined 350 unsatisfactory employes and found that 80% failed not for lack of skill but because of misfit temperaments...
...Humm-Wadsworth going-over, a 45-minute test, a man has to answer 318 questions such as: "Do you like to go on blind dates? Do you like to pass along a good story? Do you think traffic policemen have the right attitude toward motorists? Do you like movie heroes?" Studying the responses, Dr. Humm gets a "profile" of an individual showing his self-control, drive, truculence, tendency to daydream, etc. The average person, according to Dr. Humm, has a "normal-manic" temperament, i.e., is emotional but self-controlled...
Engineers have long wanted to use the engine tests to generate power, but there were too many hitches. For one thing, test runs of motors in the past have been sporadic. With quantity production of high-powered engines, tested on schedule, power production becomes possible. More important was the difficulty of coupling a high-speed engine to a low-speed generator, of obtaining uniform, dependable voltage regardless of the ups & downs in speed and number of the engines under test. Now a variable-speed dynamo unit replaces the propeller, produces power instead of wind...