Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union contracts, the International Typographical Union figured out a simple dodge. The printers refused to renew their contracts, but insisted that publishers agree instead to informal "conditions of employment" which actually kept the closed shop in operation. Many newspapers agreed; the Chicago publishers refused, and the I.T.U. struck. To test the legality of the printers' policy, the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association filed separate suits against the I.T.U. before the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, six weeks after the Chicago publishers had won the strike (TIME, Sept. 26), the NLRB unanimously ruled that...
This year (TIME, April 4), Dr. Waksman announced that he and an assistant, Hubert Lechevalier, had isolated another antibiotic from a soil microbe which Waksman named Streptomyces fradiae in honor of his mother. The drug, neomycin, is as effective as streptomycin against tubercle bacilli in the test tube, and Waksman hopes that it can be combined with streptomycin in treating tuberculosis...
...York's Senatorial election, the only one this fall, is attracting attention in all parts of the country. John Foster Dulles and Herbert H. Lehman are engaged in an important test of Administration domestic policy as well as a battle of well-known personalities...
...only were passing students delighted with the proceedings, but so were Life and newspaper photographers, the University Hall secretarial staff, and a trained dog who tried to earn himself a screen test before Assistant Director Sid Sidman. To keep the people happy while waiting for the sun, Thayer Hall freshmen offered an impromptu program of amplified Al Jolson songs and Dwight Fiske records...
...Another test uses three buttons, two of one color and an odd one. This measures quickness of reaction. Birds hit the center button, and then immediately strike the matching one to win their meal...