Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hellfire to inspire reformation, but dwelt on mitigating circumstances. One cause of the rising public debt was the sterilization of gold. The Federal Government has borrowed to buy no less than $1,050,000,000 in gold coming from abroad in order to prevent its exercising an inflationary effect on U. S. trade. Since the Government has this gold to sell when foreigners want it back, it has a billion-dollar asset. Subtracting this amount, the debt would stand at $35,350,000,000 or $324,000,000 more than he set last January for the top debt figure...
...distress has been caused to the Duke, I greatly regret it," winced the Garter King of Arms, when confronted by newshawks. "I recollect that the Duke [when King] did say something to the effect that it was his mother's wish that the funeral should be concluded in a week to avoid prolonged distress to the Royal Family. ... I meant no sort of disrespect to the Duke of Windsor...
...Elkton, Md. gloated. Led by Elkton's famed Marriage-Parlorist William ("Pop") Cann, Maryland's taxi-drivers had beaten a June 30 deadline on a new Maryland marriage law. Although this law, requiring a 48-hr. interim between applying for a license and being wed, took effect June 1, Maryland's Constitution permits the lifting and postponement of its laws by public petition within 30 days. The law is then submitted to popular referendum at the next election of U. S. Representatives.*Maryland taximen, who make good money driving out-of-State couples to the marriage mills...
...been manufactured by Philips Glowlamp Works of Holland and other companies for about three years. Krypton lamps cost 75?, compared to 25? for argon lamps, but their sponsors claim that a 40-watt krypton lamp sheds as much light as an ordinary 50-watt bulb and that the cooling effect of krypton remarkably prolongs the bulb's life...
...other names. In its complaint the FTC charged that the two associations deliberately executed eight such practices as exclusive license agreements with wholesalers selling PGA balls, price discounts to members, coercion of nonmember retailers to prevent their selling balls at prices less than those designated by the maker. The effect, said the FTC, "has been unreasonably to suppress competition, bring about unlawful discrimination in prices for goods of the same grade and quality, substantially increase the cost of golf balls to retailers and the public and to discriminate against small business enterprises." A separate count under the Robinson-Patman...