Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...York City is the greatest single liquor market in the U. S. It is also paradise for liquor retailers, whose 40% markup is the country's highest. Ever since New York State legislators passed the Feld-Crawford Act (1935) New York City has also been No. 1 test tube for price-fixing laws. Under the Act (similar to price-fixing laws in 42 other States), prices of all trademarked articles can be price-fixed "vertically" by agreement between manufacturer and retailer...
Richelieu was one of the most cunning, adroit, far-seeing and resourceful minds in political history. First test of any great politician is to hoist himself into position where he can control the steering wheel of state at the decisive moments. Half of Richelieu's political lifetime was spent in getting behind the wheel. He got there first by attaching himself to the fat, sly, greedy, frightened Florentine, Marie de Medici, widow of Henri IV. She reigned for her 15-year-old son, Louis XIII, whom she used to spank publicly to the delight of the tittering court...
Adams House: Dr. Little would prefer not to have student waiters in his own House. He would like to see a test case but does not believe that it would work...
Kirkland House: Mr. Clark . . . stated that if the majority of the undergraduates in his House indicated support to the plan he would be willing to have a test ease tried...
...Despite the fact that 57.5% of the men who answered the poll declared opposition to student waiting if it could not reduce the board rate, the sympathetic majorities in answer to the question sounding opinion on a test lead us to believe that the plan should be tried this fall in one or two of the Houses...