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Millions of U.S. men, up before draft examiners in World War I and II, had their hearing tested by one simple method. The tester stood them against a wall, backed away 20 feet, started speaking in a low conversational tone, walked toward them, asked them to indicate when they could hear what he was saying. Does this test-which the Army, the Navy and the Veterans Administration still use-prove anything? No, says Dr. Aram Glorig, director of aural rehabilitation at the Army Medical Center in Washington...
...Face Tester. Mrs. Dodge had never expected to go into business in the first place. When she married, she settled down with the intention of raising a large family. She had only one child before her first husband, Vincent B. Thomas, suddenly died in 1918, and she had to take over his business, the Ayer company...
...harbor of grimy Liverpool, swept by racing tides and shrouded in fog or rain a good part of the year, is a nerve-tester for ship pilots. Last week the test was easier. At seven control stations along the Mersey basin, seven navy-type radars scanned the crowding river traffic. Their electronic eyes could pierce the blackest night, the soupiest fog or rain, spotting every ship, buoy, dock or shoreline. Dock masters could warn a scuttling ferry (in appropriate nautical language) that a long, lean liner was fixing to cut her in two. They could guide a blank-blank collier...
Testing oil wells by radioactive methods is an established procedure. Down the well goes a small amount of material which gives off neutrons and causes gamma-rays to bounce back from the surrounding rocks. By measuring the gamma-rays, the well-tester gets a fairly clear picture of the strata around the well. Often he finds neglected oil-bearing layers...
...doubted that pitching would cinch the league championship. How it stacked up in quality against prewar slug ging would get a test in the last two-thirds of the season. The tester: big Hank Greenberg, who led the 1940 hitting pa rade with 41 homers, pocketed his Army discharge last week and planned to give Detroit a hitting as well as a pitching punch...