Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordered National Electric to live up to its terms-an order the company gladly obeyed. Last week, just as National Electric was posting this order throughout its plant, the Labor Board cracked down with a thunderous ruling that the A. F. of L. contract was "void and of no effect." Its "precipitate granting," held the Board, smacked of trickery, since the company knew that the A. F. of L. union "did not represent the free choice of a majority of its employes." The only fair thing to do was to start afresh by holding an election...
...Governor Hoffman, New York's Governor Lehman, New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee. Getting in his political oar, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg declared. "It is none of our business, as neutrals, what the effect of our neutrality will be upon anybody but ourselves...
...these increases went into effect, they would cost the roads $639,000,000, or 95% of last year's net operating income. One-third of U. S. railroads are already bankrupt and others hard-pressed to meet their fixed charges alone. Said Railway Age: "Unless the series of developments now rapidly tending to bankrupt virtually the entire railway system of the U. S. is immediately arrested, the American people may suddenly awaken to a realization that government ownership and operation of railways have become almost or actually unavoidable...
...general, however, this promises to be a light year for infantile paralysis. How much this may be due to the preventive effect of the Peet-Schultz nasal spray is any epidemiologist's guess. The solution for spraying, which was developed by Dr. Edwin William Schultz and Chemist Louis Philipp Gebhardt of Stanford University, consists of 1% zinc sulphate, 0.5% pure common salt, 1 % pontocaine hydrochloride (a local anesthetic) in distilled water. But to use this effectively is no easy trick. The careful spraying procedure advised by Dr. Peet...
...Smith). His Kai Lung stories, which first began to appear 37 years ago and have been coming out at lengthy intervals ever since, have long delighted patient readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Their low-keyed humor, chess-game pace and subacid satire give them an effect somewhat less than sidesplitting, but for readers who like their slyness slow and stately, Ernest Bramah is a lordly dish. And The Return of Kai Lung shows that his salt has not lost its savor for being kept so long in the attic...