Word: californias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This time Mrs. Norton was able to keep the bill from death by amendment. The few minor amendments adopted exempted from the provisions of the bill agricultural workers, employes of any branch of the fishing industry, of weekly or semiweekly country newspapers with circulations of 3,000 or less. California's Charles Kramer relieved his colleagues' tension for a moment by offering an amendment exempting child actors from the child labor provisions. Dubbed the Shirley Temple Amendment, it was promptly adopted. But the tension returned as the bill approached its real test, and then as the first fateful...
...Charles Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory suggested that an electronic telescope (converting feeble starlight into electric current by means of photoelectric cells) could be built which would equal a 2,000-inch mirror telescope - ten times bigger than the 200-inch giant now being erected on a California mountain...
Geologically, the situation is simple. Oil is taken out of off-shore pools by building piers or artificial islands and drilling downward (which is likely to ruin the beaches) or by whip-stocking down slantwise from the shore. Politically, it is more complicated. Standard Oil of California owns or controls virtually all of Huntington Beach and a good share of Long Beach and Wilmington Beach. Standard is as much of a political issue in California as Southern Pacific was 25 years ago. Standard's foes in the State Legislature, led by excitable Senator Culbert Olson, hotly denounce Governor Frank...
...holds the title. The question has become important only recently with the development of offshore drilling, and the committee had few judicial decisions to guide it. The Senate applied the Nye resolution to all underwater oil in the U. S., but the House committee restricted it to California. Last week, after three months' consideration, it decided that at least in California the Federal Government had title, reported out the resolution...
...Navy has three big oil reserves, one at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, two more in California, in Kern County and in the Buena Vista hills. The two California fields are checkerboarded with Standard Oil holdings. The resolution setting up the fourth big reserve provides that the Attorney General may take action against companies now operating in the tidelands. That, of course, will take time. Standard and its competitors last week continued to take out offshore oil. Frequently in the past year they have got as much as 15,000 barrels...