Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, to provide a test case, Equity sued Actor Marshall and his employers. Warner Brothers, for $1,000,000 damages. Actor Marshall was a model Equity member from 1913 until suspended last June for signing his non-Equity contract. Equity charged that he had violated the agreement of June 5, asked for temporary restraining orders and, later, permanent injunctions to prevent Actor Marshall from working with Warner Brothers without Equity sanction. The damages were asked for an interview, reputedly prepared by Actor Marshall and the Warner Brothers, in which the actor denounced Equity, shook the morale of its members...
Candidate Rupp was downcast to the point of desperation. He went immediately to Washington, secured permission to take another eyesight test. Then he visited an employment agency, asked for a young man "to help run a gas station." From likely candidates he selected Paul David Schooler, a youth of 19 not unlike himself in size and appearance. He gave Schooler $15 and a careful explanation. Next day, a youth calling himself Henry Sherwin Rupp appeared at the Navy Department to take a re-examination in vision for the U. S. Naval Academy...
When a U. S. woman buys silk stockings, she frequently purchases some tin along with the silk. How much tin she is buying she cannot know, for there is no standard way of testing silk. But for her protection and the protection of the manufacturer of her stockings, the American Standard Association is considering tin-silk test standardization...
...warehouses in which 15,000,000 gallons of liquor are stored. The liquor is private property held for legal sale as medicine. In bonded storage the U. S. stands stern guard over it, with agents to gauge its quantity, to test its quality, to control its withdrawal for drug-store purpose. Last week its was revealed in Chicago that some 50,000 gallons of such closely-guarded liquor had somehow gotten out of government bondage. It was the biggest "escape" of its kind in the history of Prohibition...
...separate. He wanted the reservation, if made at all, to be in the form of a separate announcement, noted and communicated to the U. S. apart from the Mellon-Berenger plan. The Opposition was immovable, clung to its reservation. Inflated with temporary success they waited a chance for a test of strength. With Latin complexity, a crisis was built up which had nothing to do with the merits of the reservation, very little to do with the debt...