Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...mirror to turn Dr. Michelson reckons the speed. This performance is different from the classic Michelson-Morley experiment on which Dr. Einstein based his theory of Relativity. The Michelson-Morley work, performed in 1887 in a basement room at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, was carried on to test the presence of an "ether-drift," required two beams of light traveling perpendicular to one another...
...long as present economic conditions prevail, 3) that no reduction of stocks of copper on hand is included in the plan. In emphasizing the voluntary and temporary nature of the agreement, it was apparent that the coppermen fear the U. S. Government's attitude. The most recent test of anti-trust laws applied to such co-operation was last year when Attorney General Mitchell warned oilmen that enforced curtailment, even for the noble purpose of conserving oil, would be held illegal. But last week Col. William Joseph Donovan, in a speech to the American Petroleum Institute gave a more...
...bearish developments. This move was of course technically independent of last week's Manhattan meeting, but undoubtedly the coppermen talked informally of price. With tremendous stocks of copper on hand and little prospect of an immediate reduction in them, the new price has yet to meet a real test. But apparently depression and copper chaos have deprived the copper tycoons of none of their willingness to take big chances for big stakes...
...test his theory, Mr. Knapp tried raising ducks himself on Currituck Sound, N. C. He successfully hatched out 54% of his eggs. Many a game specialist has experimented along the same lines. Bobwhite quail have been bred for ten years by William B. Coleman, in Virginia. Eugene M. Simpson, superintendent of Oregon State Game Farm is now trying to rear grey partridges on a large scale. This week the commission meets in Manhattan to elect another president in Senator Hawes's place. Among founders of the More Game Birds in America foundation are Publisher Thomas Hambley Beck of Collier...
...ugly impression of negligence, or at least undue haste, grew yet higher with the testimony of Vice-Marshal Dowding. Fearing the dirigible was unfit for the long voyage, he said, he ordered Wing Commander R. B. B. Colmore (another crash victim) to run a full power test as soon as possible after casting off from the mooring mast at Cardington. Apparently this order was ignored...