Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painting the pumps and buildings red, white and blue-the precise colors of Mr. Seubert's stations. Although Esso displayed signs reading NOT CONNECTED WITH STANDARD OIL CO. (INDIANA), Mr. Seubert was furious. Last week he marched into a St. Louis Federal Court to file the first big lawsuit ever to disturb the live-and-let-live peace of the Standard Oil companies...
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York last week signed a law which requires every man, woman and child to supply samples of his blood whenever such blood tests are relevant to the prosecution or defense of a lawsuit. Such tests are sometimes the crux of legal actions to establish the paternity of a child. A few judges in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and South Dakota have on their own responsibility accepted blood tests as true evidence. But New York is the first state to incorporate the new science of serology in a statute and to recognize that there...
...Swedish Mechanic Henry ("Happy") Johnson was drowned, but within 50 minutes a smart boat crew had saved everyone else as both plane and camera sank. The can of film that had now cost an additional $70,000 was hauled back aboard the George Washington and Fox faced a possible lawsuit from the owners of the plane...
Manitoba. First discovery of a mosasaur skull was made in 1780 by quarrymen near Maestrict, Holland. The fossil started a lawsuit, attained such fame that a French general attacking Maestrict ordered his gunners not to molest the house containing it. Cruising the shallow seas of the Chalk Age (60-100 million years ago), the mosasaurs, though true reptiles, were completely aquatic. Their legs had become flippers. They had formidably toothed mouths which a specially jointed lower jaw enabled them to open very wide. The smallest species was eight feet long, the largest more than 40. The big ones could swallow...
...written account of what followed. President Jacobs, who emerged from the battle unscathed: "[Dr. Dodge] told me that unless I paid him $200 at once he was going to do three things: 1) To give the college and myself all the unpleasant publicity possible, staging it around a lawsuit...