Word: testings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Stretch. Oregon was the last popular test before the convention. Now that the dust had cleared, it was possible to see the frontrunners. They had narrowed down to three: Dewey, Taft and Arthur Vandenberg-who, although still an unannounced candidate, was the popular choice in the event of a deadlock. Taft was up there mostly on his nerve. He was in a position to do some jockeying and bargaining. On the first ballot, Dewey would clearly be in the lead...
...Princeton man ('13), a major of infantry and winner of the D.S.C. in World War I, he has spent most of his 17 years in Congress on military committees. He is now chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Nevertheless, last week he flunked an Army General Classification Test for enlisted...
Next morning, after a sleepless, studious night, Ham Andrews returned to the fray. He accused Brown of: (i) reading questions from a 1942 test; 2) not giving him the multiple choices which the test provided; 3) reading only questions at the end of the test, which, said Princetonian Andrews, only Harvard men are supposed to answer. And furthermore, he added: "I got the first one right...
...Test Runs. Vandenberg's backstage strategists want the nomination to come as a real draft. They had not turned a campaign wheel and did not intend to; but their man was climbing steadily in public popularity. Last week they counted up the nominations of college and university mock conventions,* found that the Senator was far ahead of the field...
...Test Run. The first shipment of British-built Ford cars, the Anglia and Prefect, were landed in New York. The cars, smaller and more expensive than U.S. Fords, have four-cylinder, 30-h.p. motors and do 28 miles on a gallon of gas. The price, f.o.b. New York: $1,395.64 for a two-door Anglia; $1,620.95 for a four-door Prefect. Young Henry Ford expects to bring in 12,000, thus make his own test of the U.S. market for small cars...