Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrown into the ranks of the unemployed, with Federal or state or city governments forced to take care of them under some dole system. This is because with a cut in acreage there is no need for so many workers in the fields. It is believed this may affect 400,000 farmers and a large number of persons who are dependent upon them for livelihood...
...Laclede Gas Light Co. (St. Louis), an operating subsidiary of Promoter Harley L. Clarke's Utilities Power & Light. In registering a $3,000,000 bond issue with the Trade Commission, Laclede directors had signed a sworn statement that no suits were pending against the company which would affect the new bonds' value. After the issue had been distributed, the Trade Commission stumbled on the fact that there were rate cases pending against Laclede in Missouri courts...
Promptly the Commission ordered hearings to determine whether adverse decisions might not affect the bonds' value. If the Commission revokes the registration, bondholders may demand their investment's return, may sue Laclede directors for damages...
...Such plays don't have much effect on the government," said Mr. Gaxton. "Both our plays have been produced at opportune times, so naturally they were successful. But they did not affect the administration in any way the administration that 'Of Thee I Sing' was satirizing was so used to ridicule that one play more or less didn't make much difference...
...fundamental constant" is apparently a variable. Nineteenth Century theorists supposed that light was propagated through space by an all-pervading ether. The late great Albert Abraham Michelson, first U. S. Nobel Prizewinner in Science, reasoned that if this ether existed, then the motion of the earth through it should affect the velocity of light. In 1887 he and Edward W. Morley rigged up an interferometer, raced two beams of light against each other, one parallel to the earth's motion, the other perpendicular. The two beams arrived at their common destination at the same instant. This historic experiment discredited...