Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been turning his employes over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money to pay the postage for his personal opinions-that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry. Fortunately . . . that type of executive is a rarity...
...Thomas Benton, Charles Sheeler, John Steuart Curry, Peggy Bacon, left English critics with their bowlers clamped firmly on their heads. Declaring that half the paintings might have been done "by devoted but not very skilful admirers of contemporary French art," critics found the remainder honest but uneven, likened their effect to the blare of trombones...
Meanwhile, 31-year-old Carlton Cook, amateur lyricist, artist and poet of Denver, Colo., happened to read in a paper the text of a speech by Kitty Cheatham, a folk-song singer, which was delivered last year during International Women's Week in Budapest. "Can you imagine the effect," Miss Cheatham had asked, "if all the nations of the world would join together and sing Hallelujah?" These words were practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments...
...limit would be cut to 1,000,000; 2) a daily trading limit per person of 2,000,000 bu. in all futures combined, also cut to 1,000,000 in the delivery month, These limitations, which will not apply to bona fide hedging operations, will go into effect shortly after July 10 unless there are convincing objections...
Chicago hopes to steal New York's thunder through a rule limiting futures trading to hides not more than one year old (the younger a hide is, the better most manufacturers like it). In New York, trading in five-year-old hides is permitted. Effect of Chicago's restrictions was evident in last week's prices. Sample: September hides in Chicago were 8.79? a lb., in New York 8.58?. These prices are only about half what hides were bringing last year, for consumption of tanned leather was off 25% in the first four months this year. Despite...