Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mediation Board last December. Last week's Circuit Court decision upheld Judge Carpenter and notified the workmen not only that they would get 30 to 50 cents per day more pay on basic rates, but that railroad legislation was currently less obscure than formerly. It was the first test case...
...they admitted a shrewd arriére-pensée: "We will, by actually stopping broadcasting, be able to determine by test if the public is in favor of our return to the air. Our equipment and installation will be kept intact...
Many of the answers emphasize the fact that censorship is not only contrary to American ideals of free speech and a free press, but also that censorship is bad psychology and bad educational policy. I have had an opportunity not long since to test the psychological effect of censorship in the case of a "razz" sheet published by the George Washington University chapter of Pi Delta Upsilon, the national honorary journalistic fraternity...
...Harvard canes, Hrvd No. 9072 and Hrvd No. 1192, included in the preceding analytical tests, for comparison with Cristalina, gave most satisfactory results. Hrvd No. 9072, a tenaciously rooted, drought-resistant variety, physically adapted for cultivation on the uplands, gave a cane yield of 56.2 arrobas per caballeria on a 1922 planting and a rate of 531 bags 96 degrees sugar per cab. Hrvd No.1192, on land similar to the Cristalina test, gave a cane yield of 53.990 arrobas, and a rate of 493 bags of sugar per caballeria...
...standing, the greatest consolidation in the history of motors was completed. The latter is doubtless of more ultimate importance than is the small cut in automobile prices made possible by the removal of the war tax. The advantages of merging in business have been put to a long enough test so that now there is no general cry of a populace fearing control by the trusts whenever such an important transaction occurs: the Big Stick was buried in the distant past, and the present sees no necessity for resurrecting it. Where three or tour concerns are in essential control...