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Automobiles. Prof. Howard R. Mayberry, of the psychology department, University of Chicago, has devised a test for applicants for motor licenses, consisting of control devices directing the movements of a toy automobile through the streets of a model city. The candidate must avoid traffic jams...
Tunnels. A. C. Fielding and W. P. Yant, gas experts of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, in an extended series of air tests in the new twin Liberty vehicular tunnels to the South Hills of Pittsburgh, have perfected a ventilating system which makes the tunnels safe for human beings with any volume of traffic. A procession of 200 auto trucks was run through the tunnels several times, and samples of air taken in the early tests showed 4½ to 10 parts of carbon monoxide present. Canaries, which are very sensitive to the gas, were released in the tunnels...
...test of the farmers' prosperity has in the past been afforded by the earnings of the large mail-order houses. The annual report of Sears, Roebuck & Co. is consequently illuminating...
...test of this proposed compulsory consolidation program will come when the decision has to be made as to who will get the New Haven, the Great Western or the Western Maryland...
Such was the creed that made of Woodrow Wilson's public career a consistent whole. Such is the test which he would have had us apply to the success or failure of that career...