Word: testings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acres. Reluctant to discuss the matter. AAA legalites nonetheless conceded that this production control was quite as direct as that achieved under the AAAct. They expected to get away with it because of the obvious difficulty a complainant would have in getting the law into court for a test case. If it should escape the Supreme Court's interdiction, the scheme could easily be extended to all the other cash crops which the AAAct was created to control...
...only did the Prime Minister show himself a great Minister of the Crown, but the whole British people displayed a moral force," said Le Temps of Paris last week. "This test, which was very perilous, has magnificently confirmed the value of British institutions...
...motorcycle shop owned a French biplane which he crashed during an exhibition. Chagrined, he dumped the wreckage in his back yard. To chubby, 17-year-old Juan de la Cierva and two cronies, this was tempting bait. They offered to rebuild the plane if the Frenchman would test-fly it. Laughingly he agreed. All that was salvageable were the motor and wheels. All the resources the three boys had were $60 and a knowledge of arithmetic. Nonetheless, to Madrid's amazement, their jerry-built contraption flew. It was the first Spanish plane...
...boys built several more planes and gliders with help from their rich families. In 1918 Juan built the world's second tri-motor. The test pilot crashed it by flying too low too slow. This rammed into the young designer's mind the two prime weaknesses of airplanes: they are utterly dependent upon their motors; they need lots of room to land or take off. Juan de la Cierva resolved to remove these flaws, began toying with helicopters (planes with the propeller faced vertically). He got the idea of disconnecting the helicopter propeller from the engine, enlarging...
...hour this autumn, Edna May Durbin was born in Winnipeg, brought up in Los Angeles where her father is a broker. She started taking singing lessons at 11. Last year her voice caught the ear of Hollywood Agent-Manager Jack Sherrill who put her under contract, got her a test with M-G-M for a picture that was never made. Her possibilities impressed Associate Producer Rufus LeMaire. When he joined Universal, he persuaded the new company to hire her, changed her name...