Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week debate on the Robinson Compromise is to commence. Most opponents of the old bill declared themselves opposed to the new bill on principle, but observers agreed that if it could be brought to vote, Joe Robinson had lined up enough votes to pass it. First test of strength is expected when opponents try to refer the new bill to the Judiciary Committee where it would doubtless die. Second test of strength may come several weeks later when, after long but genuine debate, opponents may filibuster to prevent a vote...
...Scout cheerfulness was put to the test this week by a downpour that lasted all Sunday night and half the next day, turning much of the camp area into quagmire. Undismayed, 5,000 selected Scouts marched to a memorial service in the Arlington National Cemetery theatre, placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Governmental high spot of the jamboree came later this week with President Roosevelt's review. Instead of waiting while the 25,000 passed him, the President was to drive down Constitution Avenue, lined for two miles by cheering Boy Scouts...
Bought new for some $200,000 by .Richard Archbold, research associate of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, the 27,500-lb. plane was flown from San Diego to New York as a test hop for an expedition Explorer Archbold plans to New Guinea this year. With Pilot Russell Rogers, Explorer Archbold and four others aboard, the big ship covered the 2,600-miles overnight in 17 hr. 3½-min. So perfect was the weather that the Sperry gyro-pilot handled the controls most...
...association similar to that of Pan American and Imperial but as unstable as an alliance between cat and dog was formed last week between Germany's Lufthansa and Air France. These two national airlines agreed to cooperate in test flights across the Atlantic, share each other's bases at each end. The agreement gives Germany rights at Dakar, Senegal, for South Atlantic flights, and at Hanoi. French Indo-China, for Far Eastern flying. France won the right to use Germany's catapult ships in the Atlantic. Co-operation was necessary because France lacks planes, Germany lacks capital...
...France and the French Line joined in creating a new concern called Companie Air France-Transatlantique. It announced that the lumbering old flying boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, which capsized in Pensacola Bay 18 months ago after flying up from South America, had been rebuilt, would soon start test flights across the North Atlantic. Lufthansa last week announced that it would start test flights to the U. S. in the first week of July with "the two biggest two-float hydroplanes ever constructed." These trim monoplanes, called Nordmeer and Nordwind, are powered by four Diesel engines apiece, have a cruising...