Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry minimum wages & maximum hours of labor. The Senate passed it last July, but in the House it was held up by a hostile Rules Committee until a majority petition to discharge it was completed three weeks ago. Last week, by the time that the bill reached its final test, two developments had reduced its 9 chances of passage. One was Recession, which made Congress wary of any legislation which put a new burden upon Business. The other was the discovery that no organized group, including Labor whom it was supposed to benefit, was particularly eager for the bill...
When an animator and his assistants complete a scene, a test camera photographs the sketches on a film strip. Running this back and forth in a small two-way projector known as a moviola, the animator spots "bugs and bobbles," jerkiness or missteps in the animation. Not until a set of drawings is approved by Walt and the director does it go to the inking and "painting department, where over 150 nimble-fingered girls trace the sketches on 12½-by-15-in. celluloid transparencies, called "cels," paint in the designated coloring from a store of 1,500 colors...
Meanwhile, B. C. C. is facing its crucial test, a challenge on constitutional grounds from the doughty Carter Coal Co. of Coalwood, W. Va. Carter Coal brought the suit which resulted in the Supreme Court's invalidation of the original Guffey Act. It would dearly love to do the same with the Guffey-Vinson...
...organizers are simply run out of town. Last month, having given plenty of advance notice, a group of C. I. O. organizers attempted to enter the city, accompanied by reporters, photographers and observers from the Workers' Defense League and the Civil Liberties Union. The idea was to test the validity of Boss Hague's ordinances against distributing non-commercial literature. The organizers from New York had some difficulty getting into Jersey City at all, for almost as fast as they arrived waiting police and plainclothesmen put them back on the ferries and tubes to Manhattan. When their infiltration...
...anything. Mr. Beamish's engineers stood around, not helping. A little less than three days after Lawyer Kelley delivered Mr. Beamish's ultimatum, the plant was finally producing 24,000 kilowatt hours out of its capacity of 37,000. Lawyer Kelley then relented, told the men the test was over and they could go home and get some sleep...