The United States Employment Service of the Department of Labor developed tests for a variety of job skills. This is one of them, designed to test number writing. Examinees were to copy fifty numbered numbers listed on one side of a piece of paper into numbered blank spaces on the other. A mark at the top of the test reads: C9. The test would be adopted by the War Manpower Commission for classifying civilian employees during World War II.
Reference:
United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps, Civilian Testing Handbook, Washington, DC, 1945, p. 70.
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