Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour week with time-and-a-half for overtime. But instead of running for a full year, the new contract may be reopened on ten days' notice by either side, and if no agreement is reached within the next 20 days, the contract lapses. In effect, this means that U. S. Steel may, at any time, ask the union to accept a wage cut, and if the union does not accept, proceed to put the wage cut into effect. Under the straight one-year agreement wages could not be cut during the life of the contract...
Describing the Rightist drive, partially under his command, General Juan Yague told correspondents at captured Peralejos, eight miles from Teruel, ''The operation was the same bolsa or 'pocket' maneuver we used to such good effect throughout our northern campaign and at Brunete last summer...
Last week came the third set in this tennis match of opposing price policies: In Washington on the same day 1) the F. T. C. appealed to the Supreme Court to continue in effect its original order to Goodyear as a preventive to further price discrimination and 2) Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau beamed at the discovery that the bids for a new $1,500,000 Government tire&tube contract differed widely. Said he: "I am glad to see signs of competition in the tire bids, and I hope the practice will be extended to other merchandise purchased...
...advance, builds one house beside the other methodically, pausing from time to time to call attention to the increase in population. But in building his city of Jefferson, Miss, in six novels and three books of short stories, William Faulkner has followed a far more devious path. In effect, he has put down one street and then built houses miles away from it. As the same characters (or their sons and grandsons) turned up in volume after volume, critics suspected that Faulkner had some unified plan that would become apparent when his cycle of books was completed. But when Pylon...
...neutrality act were enforced in the Far Eastern crisis, its first effect would be to (1 blockade the coasts of Japan and China, 2 withdraw all American soldiers, sailors and marines from China, 3 stop shipments of arms from this country to Japan and China, 4 stop all trade between this nation and China and Japan, 5 call a conference of neutrals to deal with the crisis...