Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carter talked himself into trouble with C. I. O. unions. Pickets marched in front of Station WCAU (Philadelphia) where he did his broadcasting, and it was persistently rumored that his five-year-long association with his sponsor, the Philco Radio & Television Corp., would not outlast the contract then in effect. At the beginning of 1938 Newscaster Carter and Philco parted company. Promptly he was signed by General Foods to broadcast for Huskies and Post Toasties. Thereupon Philadelphia's C. I. O. Council passed a boycott resolution against General Foods products...
Though some connection between light and sex was thus made obvious, Dr. Perry was not convinced that it was a case of cause and effect. Perhaps, he reasoned, the radiation first altered some factor in the diet, which then stimulated the pituitary and through it the sex mechanism. With this hypothesis in mind. Perry irradiated whole-wheat grains with ultraviolet light, fed them to his birds. That did the trick, whereas the sex glands of other birds which received the same (normal) illumination, but did not eat the irradiated, aphrodisiac wheat, remained in the "resting condition...
Similar in effect to injections are the pollen pills first introduced by Detroit's Sherman Laboratories last spring. Ten days before he starts sneezing, the patient swallows a few pills, gradually increases the amount until his physician calls a halt. Medical opinion is now divided on the efficacy of the pills, some physicians holding that the pills cause serious upsets in the digestive system...
...Reaffirmed with slight modifications the hours of service restrictions for the trucking industry as drawn up last December. Originally scheduled to go into effect July 1, these rules were postponed upon protests from Labor, which wanted a maximum 8-hr, day, 48-hr, week. The ICC's truck division had specified a maximum 60-hr. week with 15 hr. of duty and twelve of work in any 24. Last week, pointing out that the Motor Carriers Act was designed for safety reasons, not for "economic or social ends," the ICC. clung to the 60-hr. week but specified that...
Like House of All Nations, The World Is Mine is a novel with an unpredictable future. Safest bet is that a few readers will enjoy its spotty but brilliant literary coloring, while the rest get the effect of a faulty spectrum that whirls out of a bad shade...