Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defendant in the test action was Rubert Hermanos, Inc., which owns 12,188 acres of sugar land and operates the Central San Vicente. Rubert Hermanos, Inc. maintained: 1) that it was engaged primarily in sugar manufacture rather than agriculture; 2) that the Government was estopped from withdrawing the Hermanos franchise because the law had been neglected so long. Down from the bench came a contrary opinion canceling the Hermanos franchise and imposing a fine of $3,000 (the statute violation is a civil, not criminal offense). As for Rubert Hermanos' contention, crackled Associate Justice Martin Travieso...
...take his Master's degree, is now working for his Ph.D. To date he has built no working model of his design. Said he: "There is no reason to build a working model. Any radio man in the country could do it easily. There is nothing to test because the only way to test it is to crack up a ship...
...than England's enormously fat, lethargic Alfred Hitchcock (Thirty-Nine Steps) in the department of nightmarish melodrama. For sheer sentiment he is probably no match for pudgy, high-voiced George Cukor (Camille, Holiday). For action pictures he is topped by John Ford (Hurricane), or Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous, Test Pilot). For capitalizing girlish sweetness at the box office, he is certainly no rival to Viennese Henry Koster, imported by Universal two years ago, to whom Deanna Durbin and Danielle Darrieux owe a large part of their current popularity. For urbane, continental sophistication, he is outclassed by Ernst Lubitsch...
...Awaited a test of the constitutionality of the new AAA as it applies to tobacco. The five-month-old crop law was designed to keep up prices by sales quota for each tobacco region. On all tobacco sold over the quota there are penalty taxes of 50% of the market price or 3? a Ib. if the excess tobacco sold goes for less than 6?. Last week saw the opening of 1938 tobacco auctions in Georgia and Florida with the crop larger than last year (88,047,000 Ib.) and substantially higher than the quotas. Angry planters in both States...
...number of lighter, more salable derivatives such as kerosene and gasoline. Polymerization is the reverse; it takes the very lightweight, gaseous fractions of petroleum, which were formerly wasted or used only in restricted ways,* and through pressure, heat and catalytic agents builds them into heavier molecules for high-test (antiknock) gasoline...