Word: tester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glue itself but the volatile solvents (acetone, butyl acetate, toluene) used to make the glue dry faster that are poisonous as well as intoxicating. Glue manufacturers are trying to find a remedy for the situation. Says Charles D. Miller, president of Tester Corp., Rockford, Ill., makers of model-airplane cement: "We are going to change the formula by reducing the amount of acetone so that the narcotic effect will be slowed down, but I am afraid the kids will just switch to another product...
After the first tests were completed, all the chickens were put in a single flock and kept together until they were ten weeks old. When they were cooped again in the togetherness tester, they all behaved pretty much alike toward the stimulus chicken on the other side of the wire. Baron and Kish conclude that chicks raised in isolation feel little attraction for their own kind, but after they have flocked together for six weeks, they learn to be as sociable as other chickens. Chickens are not much like humans, but Baron and Kish believe that their chicken study should...