Word: x-rayed
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Said the Ford Foundation's Robert Hutchins: "The patriotism of the Los Angeles school board was so intense that it developed an X-ray eye that enabled it to see Henry Ford II, Benson Ford, Donald David of the Harvard School of Business, and the other men who dominate the Ford Foundation as Communist agents...
Intolerable Conditions. Many sad confusions result. Desiring foreign capital investment, the Indonesians devise intolerable conditions for its operation. They launch a reconstruction program, then impose heavy tariffs on the tools of reconstruction; a health program, but ban the import of X-ray films; an education drive, then double the import duty on school textbooks. Rather than have their army trained by Western military experts, they would have it untrained...
Like many modern technological creations, the X-ray machine often seems to dominate the man who handles it. Black topped, black-tubed, it looks like a monstrous bridge lamp upon a lead table; this, and the serious nature of the work can easily make insignificant or lugubrious the personality of the man who pushes the buttons...
...these indicate that the man, not the machine, is important here. Though he is short, X-ray technician and Dillon fixture Joe Murphy cannot be dwarfed by his radiating photographic device. "That whistle box" he says; since 1935, the whistle box has taken hundreds of thousands of pictures and Murphy has made friends with everyone from telephone operators to James Bryant Conant...
Murphy finds discussion of the Hygiene Department's "powerful" X-ray and medical facilities absorbing, but reveals all the while the equally human and scientific aspects of his own work...