Word: test
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Tests. By last week, the U.S. had had 14 months to examine Charlie Brannan's machine and study its insides. The two major farmers' organizations, the 1,400,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation and the 820,000-member National Grange had taken one look and gone to war against it; only the 500,000-member National Farmers Union was for it. The Congress had sniffed in horror, refused to make even a small test of the Brannan Plan, reverted instead to another year of rigidly high parity supports to be followed next year-maybe-by a halfhearted...
Hogan's real test came on the third day. Not since his accident had he played a full 36 holes in one day. With a grim smile, Ben went to work. The morning round left him two strokes back of Lloyd Mangrum's leading pace. In the afternoon, going into the final four holes, he needed par golf to win by two strokes. Tired and sagging, he could not quite make it. He missed an 18-inch putt on the dogleg 15th. On the 17th he lost another stroke by trapping his tee shot, settled for a three...
People sells for a dime, will come out fortnightly in twelve test cities. The first issue carried no ads, featured a haggard Faye Emerson on the cover, and an assortment of international bosoms inside, plus pictures and paragraphs on personalities from Ike Eisenhower to "two charming gorillas from West Africa." Commented Quick's Gardner Cowles, after a quick look at People: "Very interesting...
...twelve months of advance, Wall Street's bull market had not once experienced a real shakeout. This had caused some cautious traders to keep their fingers crossed, and wait to see how the market would withstand such a test. For a little while last week they thought the test had come...
...THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD JANUARY 1950 TO EARLY JUNE...