Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kicked him out and he got a job addressing envelopes in Brussels. The Germans chased him for a year, caught him, gave him to Mussolini, who imprisoned him. In his years as an exile lacometti once had a job as a traveling salesman. He says: "I didn't effect a single sale in three months, and came near starving...
...morning depression in otherwise normal people? Dr. Ehrenwald is not very optimistic. They might, he thinks, arrange their hours so that their heaviest work is done in the evening, when they are at their best. If they take sleeping pills, they should avoid the late-acting kind that take effect when they have become sleepy anyway. Otherwise, since it is impossible to send the morning head back to bed while the body goes to work, the only thing to do is grin & bear...
...William Beveridge (in 1942) put out his famous plan,* its socialistic scheme for insurance and medical care was sponsored by a Conservative-led coalition government. Last week, under the more appropriate aegis of the Labor government, a National Health Service Act initiated by the Beveridge Report went into effect. For every man, woman & child in the United Kingdom, all medical care would be free, in a Socialist sense (paid out of taxes): doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, hospital beds, eyeglasses, artificial legs...
...hangars), so the Authority did no more than try to contain the airlines' rebellion. It canceled the operating permits at La Guardia of such foreign lines as Peruvian International Airways, Scandinavian Airlines system, K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines), Linea Aeropostal Venezolana, Air France and Sabena (Belgian Airlines), in effect forcing them to accept its invitation to move to Idlewild. Domestic airlines which had their eyes on New Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal (20 minutes from Manhattan) found that the Authority had got there first with a good...
...hang on to its biggest customers, Morton Salt Co. had been giving extraordinarily large trade discounts. Unconvinced that this had any relation to real savings in Morton's costs, FTC had charged that the discounts were unfair to smaller buyers. The Supreme Court in effect had ordered Morton Salt to stick to a uniform price list for big & small alike. Reasoned one businessman: "If everyone does stick to his price list and the price lists gravitate to a common level, as they will be compelled to do under the economic law of uniform price, then, according to the Supreme...