Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test the reported willingness of bankers & brokers to back Alf M. Landon at 5-to-8 odds, the pro-Roosevelt New York Daily News sent a newshawk to Wall Street with $1,600 in cash. Unable to find anyone to bet $1,000 on the Republican nominee, the newshawk reversed his position, promptly discovered a Roosevelt supporter who bet $1,400 against his $1,000 that the President would...
...natured candidate for the GOP nomination, was supposed to have been highly amused at this piece of intramural impertinence, let O'Brien's copy go through to press unedited. Last week Vice Presidential Nominee Knox's sense of political humor was put to another and sterner test when Columnist O'Brien indicated in print that he would vote the Roosevelt-Garner ticket next November...
Switching to Manhattan to found East River National Bank, the doctor was obliged to gamble for new business, began financing money-hungry cinema companies. His sure-fire test of the box-office value of a new film was to show it privately to a group of schoolgirls aged 15 to 20. What they liked he lent money on. Berated once by a bank examiner for having risked $500,000 on Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, he replied: "I think it a better investment than a Liberty Bond." The Kid paid back its loan in five months, and Liberty Bonds...
Such piecemeal laboratory tests however do not completely satisfy the conscientious manufacturer. He gives away footwear to people who are hardest on them-basketball players, garage and creamery workers, fishermen and miners, who will return the goods for examination when well worn. "At times," explained Tester Glancy, "men and young women are hired to walk daily, testing out new types of goods. Such walkers travel over a prescribed course and register at widely separated points to prove that they actually walked. Lastly, there is a group of boys and girls which often numbers 75 who wear test shoes. Once each...
Metallic Energy. To establish the strength of a metal engineers squeeze or pull (static tests) or hit (impact test) a sample piece until it breaks. Though one test is as good as another, none really explains why an automobile bolt occasionally cracks, an airplane strut snaps, a battleship's armor plate yields. By building a machine which hits a piece of metal with the whack of a bullet traveling 1,000 ft. per sec., H. C. Mann of Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal discovered that when a piece of metal is struck a very strong blow, its molecules release some...