Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told the Byrnes Committee that the chief cause of the country's current economic ills was the Administration's policies-urged modification of the levies on 1) undistributed profits and 2) capital gains. Most sensational item in the report last week was a flat statement to the effect that the best way to diminish unemployment was to repeal the first and modify the second...
Conference. Byrnes Committee report was issued at precisely the moment when this recommendation was sure to have maximum effect. House & Senate committees-the latter headed by Senator Pat Harrison, whom Senator Byrnes is supposed to have persuaded to vote for the Reorganization Bill last month-had been deadlocked over the tax bill for a week. Cause of the deadlock: Pat Harrison's Senate Committee was adamant about eliminating the undistributed profits tax entirely, modifying capital gains levies almost out of sight; Bob Doughton's House Committee was equally adamant about saving the Administration's face by preserving...
...eyed car. Good writing can never take the place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command attention. Scientists are still humans, and they cannot experience an emotional thrill over an article entitled, 'A Short Dissertation on the Effects of Alcoholic Tincture of Rotenone in the Control of Thrips on Six-weeks Old Spinach Plants in Richmond and Queens Boroughs,' especially if the article concludes that the tincture has no material effect on the thrips. Mr. Friedenberg suggested that university courses in scientific journalism would work on the side...
...metabolism through the adrenal glands; it caused growth of liver and intestines; it increased the blood's sugar content; and it inhibited the sex glands, causing pigeons' ovaries to stop producing ova and to reabsorb those already formed, and the testes of males to shrink. This last effect, in Dr. Riddle's opinion, was exerted indirectly-by blocking release of the pituitary substance which normally stimulates sex activity. It seemed to show that parental behavior and sex activity are antipathetic, by glandular decree...
Those concerns which showed little or no effect of Depression were largely concentrated in oil, aviation manufacture and broadcasting. Samples...