Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emergency v. Emergency. At Welch, W. Va., a sawmill operator named Killem worked his employes more than 40 hr. a week, paid some of 'them less than the 28.5¢ minimum hourly wage required by the Lumber & Timber Products Code. The McDowell County prosecutor went to Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard, asked for an injunction against Miller Killem under the State NRA enforcement law. Judge Howard must have remembered the motto of West Virginia, Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Freemen), when he handed down his decision. Maintaining that it was "not the purpose of this decision to interfere with...
...automobile road race, popular in Italy, France and other continental European countries will make its first appearance in this section of the United States when the Automobile Racing Association of America stages a 50-mile amateur race next Sunday at the Wayland Circuit in Wayland, Massachusetts...
Although the race will be on a circuit of approximately half a mile, the course has been arranged with a view to constructing it as realistically as possible. Two hairpin turns, six right-angle turns, numerous bends and one sharp hill help to relieve the monotony of the regular fiat track...
...enthusiasm with which they have been received in Europe have never found much favor in this country mainly because the roads were not available for such a use. Barron Gollier, advertising mogul, has contributed much time, effort and money to popularize road races and has built a circuit in Pocantico, New York, where races have been held for some time...
...American circuit, Lou Gehrig celebrated his 1,500th consecutive regular major league game by driving out his 48th home run of the season as the New York Yankees blanked Connie Mack's Athletics...