Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from that part of town which was ruined by oil derricks when the Oklahoma City field was discovered in 1928. In fact a law forbade oil drilling in that section. Yet one morning last fortnight Governor Marland was awakened by the monotonous tarnp-tamp-tamp of drills sinking a test well in an unprotected area just across the street from his Mansion...
...Surveys made by "trained observers," the century-old method of sending newshawks forth to test political sentiment, report how the country will...
...impersonation was by fiery Emma Calvé, though purists fussed at her because she took liberties with the music. Farrar's popular Carmen lacked the finesse of many of her other roles. Mary Garden was not at her best in the part. Maria Jeritza failed to stand the test. Those who disliked Ponselle's performance last week did not damn her as a singing artist but rather as a melodramatic actress...
...Kansas City last week the National Labor Relations Act, passed last summer to make employers bargain collectively with a majority of their employes, met its first constitutional test, went down to dusty defeat. Three Stouts, Charles, Warda and Alice, who own the Majestic Flour Mills at Aurora, Mo., appealed to U. S. District Judge Merrill E. Otis for an injunction against a Labor Relations complaint. A majority of the Stout employes had organized a union, and demanded higher wages. This demand was granted. Then the unionized majority demanded that only union members be employed, that no union member be discharged...
...attorney for 14 minority stockholders of Alabama Power Co. suing to prevent the company from selling transmission lines to or buying power from Tennessee Valley Authority. Lawyer Johnston uprose to argue what was expected to be a decisive test of TVA's constitutionality. Puffed by this weighty circumstance, he launched into an eloquent preamble, was just warming into his oratorical stride when Chief Justice Hughes interrupted to inquire: "Would you mind telling us what this suit is, who brought...