Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deep-voiced, bushy-browed William Jed Wardall, former investment banker (Bonbright & Co.) who became trustee of the McKesson reorganization. The McKesson reorganization was the first big case under the new Chandler Act (Chapter X of the Bankruptcy Act), and was therefore watched closely by lawyers as a test of the new law, which is designed to hasten reorganizations under the eye of SEC. Last week, the McKesson reorganization looked like a distinct legal success. The amended trustee's plan was submitted to the court on Jan. 27, agreed to by creditors, bondholders and stockholders alike, passed...
...well as the slickest mediums. But he claims no supernatural powers, relies only on his 25 years of practice in prestidigitation and his knowledge of science. It was to Magician Dunninger that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini left secret messages before their deaths to test the possibility of communication with a world of spirits. One medium's version of Edison's message: "My niece, Betty. Where are you? Boop. Boop. Boop...
...colostrum test is valid as early as two weeks after conception. This trigger-quickness is bested only by the ten-day interval of the Friedman rabbit test...
This week a new kind of pregnancy test was announced. Dr. Frederick Howard Falls and two colleagues of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, after experiments on 600 pregnant and nonpregnant women, launched it in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The answer comes up in an hour or less (the other tests take from six hours to five days); it is cheaper than the other techniques. Like the others, the Falls test is about 98% reliable...
...test works a good deal like skin-testing for allergy. The test material is colostrum-a thin, watery fluid secreted in the breasts of gravid women. From them colostrum is extracted, mixed with sterile salt solution and a preservative chemical, stored under refrigeration to await use. To make a Falls test, a small amount of the colostrum preparation is injected into a woman's forearm. If she is not pregnant, a reddish weal will appear. If she is pregnant she will not react. Theory is that pregnant women, secreting colostrum of their own, are immune to injections...