Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside management was at once relieving and disturbing. Here was a strike that was not a strike: the "strikers" were working and the product was being produced. (Whether or not the "strikers" expected to be paid for working while striking was not clear.) Unintentionally, militant Michigan Labor had, in effect, provided an object lesson in bloodless revolution...
...deny nor confirm that all this was bound for Barcelona via Le Havre, but Leftist Manhattan dockworkers openly jubilated as they loaded the President Roosevelt, declared some of the equipment was lettered in Spanish. Should a "pirate submarine" sink the President Roosevelt, Spanish observers felt this would have its effect on U. S. public opinion...
...enacted a ten-year plan that involved 1) making Hollywood invest in a number of British-made pictures according to quotas (determined by the number of Hollywood pictures distributed in the British Isles); and 2) making British cinema theatres show a similarly determined quota of British-made pictures. To effect this, Parliament set up a sliding scale of quota quantity required during the act's ten-year tenure. But what it neglected to establish was a standard of quality for quota films...
...news in many a day. The House Interstate Commerce Committee killed a Senate bill to limit the length of freight trains to 70 cars-a law for which railroad labor lobbied long and earnestly but which would have cost the roads an estimated $125,000,000 to put into effect...
...these sweeping recommendations into effect, Paul Walker asked that the Communications Act of 1934 be amended to give FCC authority: 1) to "review, approve or disapprove all Bell System policies and practices promulgated by the central management group"; 2) to "permit regulation of the Western Electric Co. by the FCC as a public utility"; 3) to "fix temporary rates whenever it appears that the return on net book cost is excessive"; 4) "to regulate Bell System financing"; 5) "to limit the scope of Bell System activities to the communications field" (Bell System at various times has been involved in radio...