Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next election," he says, "the New Deal is going to be on trial again. President Roosevelt is its ablest spokesman and in a Democratic country it deserves an able advocate. I hope he runs. Then we can debate it to everybody's satisfaction. It will be a great discussion...
Their pride & joy resembled the 14-cylinder, 1,200-h.p. Twin-Wasp motor but had four more cylinders, some 50% more horsepower, about the same dimensions. Secret-of-success: through trial & error engineers had learned to cool high-powered air-cooled engines more efficiently, thus were able to clump more cylinders around a single crankshaft. Better cooling also made it possible to increase cylinder pressures, step up speed of piston strokes...
...trade papers last winter that his union was incompetently and bossily run, he demanded that Four A's either give him a lollipop or a licking. Four A's, handing out no lollipops, investigated, last month issued eight charges against A. F. A., cited it for trial last week. Some charges: that A. F. A. was not run democratically; that it withheld some of its records from Four A's investigators; that it had used for administrative expenses $12,997 it had collected from benefits...
...stout trouper who is widely regarded as a lovable prop executive, held an A. F. A. meeting to get a vote of confidence. Miss Tucker wept, a blonde bit another actor, there was a free-for-all and no vote of confidence. Last week as the A. F. A. trial opened, Miss Tucker, other executives and A. F. A. lawyers walked out on it, charging that it was packed and illegal...