Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such a fruitless argument, it is little wonder that national "issues" have had less political effect than national events. The cost of Government, the centralization of Government, how Labor should be freed and Industry regulated have concerned practical politicians far less than such hard facts as Depression during early 1938 (and Recovery this fall), low farm prices, distribution of relief cash, the growing clamor of oldsters for pensions...
...with Ford last week. Mr. Martin played a noticeably lone hand. By doing so he was able to crack a situation which hitherto had hampered efforts to organize the suppliers. Because of intense competition in the supply business, automakers largely dictate the prices paid for parts, and thus in effect the wages paid by their makers. Harry Bennett last week announced: "Our purchasing department has been instructed not to favor parts manufacturers with low wage rates at the expense of competitors with higher wage scales and better working conditions...
Wild West. The coastal Chinese- China has always been ruled from her coastal provinces-know more about Western China than George Washington knew about the Wild West-but not much more. In effect, Chinese officials, students and soldiers began a covered wagon trek to their Wild West after it appeared that Japanese troops could not be defeated in the coastal provinces or even at Hankow by those troops which it seemed judicious to use, and perhaps not by any Chinese troops...
...Line, which usually happens to have a ship on the spot when disaster strikes in the Atlantic, expects no reward for the rescues its ten ships so frequently effect. Last week, as luck would have it, the U. S. Liner American Traveler was just 70 miles off when fire broke out in the hold of the 21,046-ton, U. S.-bound Hamburg-American liner Deutschland 200 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. At the Deutschland's SOS the Traveler doubled back, stood by with the Norwegian Europe until the Germans whipped the fire...
Secretary Hull is not blind to the forces which would destroy the effect of his trade agreements. He realizes perfectly well that the economic philosophy of self-sufficiency, with its guns-before-butter implications, is not only growing in popularity abroad but is catching on in influential circles in Washington. He knows that the Munich agreement was merely a truce concocted by a Britain desperate for time to rearm. But what he will not do is take the next step and conclude that there is no hope...