Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last April 1 Marstrand Fishing Co. at Grimsby ordered Captain George Black Osborne and a crew of four to "test the engines" of Girl Pat, a brand new 130-ton motor trawler with auxiliary sail. Once outside the harbor, Girl Pat made a beeline for the south. Two days later she put in at Dover, dropped the engineer, picked up another, set out again at once. On April 12 she appeared at Corcubion, Spain, badly damaged by storms. Going ashore, the crew had her repaired, bought $1,175 worth of provisions, sent the bill to the owners at Grimsby...
...morphine because they cause less vomiting and constipation, depress respiration less than does morphine. But "whether any of the substances possess addicting properties is very difficult to determine on animals, although efforts are being made to study this aspect of the problem on dogs and monkeys. However, the final test will have to be made on the human patient, and here [we have] the invaluable assistance of the U. S. Public Health Service...
Last week Mrs. Dibble was ready for the test. At 7 a. m. after breakfasting with her party at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, she climbed to the Valiant's box, clad in an immaculate grey top hat, yellow stock, coaching coat, blue jodhpurs, and red-&-white apron. Her companions included Trainer Walsh. Ernest K. Fownes, veteran of the 1910 run, and Chairman Gustavus Town Kirby of the U. S. Olympic Horse Show Committee who. as official timer, carried six watches. A minister blessed the equipage. At the brake, Eddie Dugan, resplendent in scarlet coat, tootled a few notes...
Discoverer of the Rodessa field was a stropping onetime lawyer-politician named Richard W. ("Dick") Norton. aborn plunger he spent his spare time accumulating a fabulous number of leases on land in Caddo Parish. As far back as 1922 this country attracted oil companies to test drilling, but they all eventually gave up. By 1930 Dick Norton had collected mineral rights to about 26,000 acres. Thena young Shreveport geologist encouraged Norton, who was down to his last dime, to borrow money and finance his own drilling. A well in the north part of the Parish turned...
Still sniffing oil, Dick Norton, on the strength of his gas, made a deal with United Gas Public Service Co., (an Electric Bond & Share unit controlled through Electric Power & Light) for a test drilling of lower sands in the Rodessa region. When the first Rodessa oil gushed into United Gas's slush pits last July it came from 6,000 feet down. Two months later a 25,000-barrel well brought in a mile and a half to the northeast proved that the Rodessa field, at this depth, extended over a respectable area. Since then more than...