Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks ago the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the union-run hiring hall, as operated by most of the big maritime unions, is in effect a closed shop and thus illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act. Nobody in the shipping industry cheered the decision; few wanted...
...Swollen Stream. Controls authorized by the special session of Congress, to go into effect Sept. 20, would put only a small damper on time-buying. The new regulation on auto purchases, for instance, calls for one-third down, the rest of the payment in 15-18 months. On household appliances, the down payment is only 20%, the rest in 15-18 months...
...portly, rosy-cheeked Veteran Communist Wilhelm Pieck called the signals for the Reds at a meeting of party functionaries in the Russian sector's Friedrichsstadt Palace. He confessed that the airlift was hurting the Red cause. Said Pieck: "There is no doubt that it has had a certain effect on the needy masses." Pieck cried for direct action against the uncompromisingly anti-Communist city government: "Fellow workers! You must frustrate a reactionary plot. Urgently we call on the people of Berlin to settle their score with . . . parties in the city government . . . We are sure the people of Berlin will...
...College of Physicians & Surgeons, Manhattan's Knickerbocker Hospital, the medical branch of the University of Texas, Jefferson Davis Hospital at Houston, and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest College. Said Columbia's Bacteriologist Murray Sanders: "Up to the present writing we do not know what effect Darvisul has on human poliomyelitis . . . One thing is clear. The real job lies ahead of us and no one can foresee the answer." In short, phenosulfazole is still an experiment...
...continent of Europe on secret missions for President Roosevelt, like Harry Hopkins and Robert D. Murphy; he broods about the decay of contemporary civilization, like Henry Adams and Lincoln Steffens; he foresees what is going to happen with uncanny clairvoyance and advises people, especially President Roosevelt, with such telling effect that they come to depend on him for most of their information; he is always on the scene when great events are in the making-in Paris in 1919 for the Peace Conference, in Germany to hear Hitler tell him that Russia will be attacked...