Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Army and The Netherlands' floodgates. Nowadays you can stop an army by flooding just over its hub caps, and Lieut. General Baron J. G. G. van Voorst tot Voorst, Commander in the Field of the Dutch Army, had already splashed around on his horse through some flood-test areas (see cut). Lieut. General and Queen were ready to flood some more. Though it had rained heavily off & on for three weeks, The Netherlands opened additional dikes to perform what was described as preliminary "saturation," to get the soil of her primary defense areas ready to hold a flood...
Last week Biochemist Paul Leland Kirk of the University of California and a graduate student, Clifton Bennett, announced a sure, swift, new syphilis test. A sore trial for pathologists, the speedy test, invented in 1935 by Dr. George Franklin Laughlen of Toronto, Ont., was fussed over for four years before it could be made practical for general use. Using the new technique and "Laughlen antigen" in 150 syphilis blood samples, Professor Kirk called all the shots, made no false diagnoses...
...Strong positive reactions," said Professor Kirk, "appeared in some cases within one minute. Tests appearing within five minutes were considered . . . very strong. If no coagulation appeared in ten minutes, the test was negative. The complete method . . . yields final results within a maximum of 20 minutes from the time of receiving a patient, and this time may often be appreciably shortened...
...educational system was added another worry-evacuation's cost. The Government pays ten shillings, sixpence a week for each child's keep. Last week, evacuation's bill having risen already to well over $500,000,000, the Ministry of Health was considering imposing a means test, making families that could afford it pay for their children's country board...
Last week, with Paramount, RKO and MGM, dickering for his picture, the Rev. Mr. Friedrich, movie producer and parson too, looked around for a typically U. S. town to test audience reaction to the film. He chose Joplin, Mo., birthplace of Cinemactor Beal...