Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allowance after the tax has been computed. For the last two years, this has been a flat 5%. In the new schedules, this subtraction would be 17% on the first $400 of tax, 12% on the rest up to $100,000, 9.75% above that. Its average effect...
...week's end, chances of the U.S. being one of the two looked doubtful. Said one GOP leader: "It is dead and going to stay dead. The word has gone out to that effect . . . there are some members who don't want to get mixed up with Russia in that kind of a deal." Public health men were indignantly reminding Congressmen that cholera germs do not respect national boundaries, or even iron curtains...
...early "Model T" bombs were designed to give maximum shock effect. Up-to-date bombs, intended to make the most of the radioactive effect, may be angled differently. Their explosive plutonium hearts may be surrounded by material chosen for its ability to absorb radiation and neutrons. When the bomb goes off they would turn into extra-deadly isotopes. Such a bomb would be a double threat. It could devastate a comparatively small area by shock and heat. Then the isotope fog could drift slowly downwind, killing by radiation...
More for Farmers. Despite the sharp drop in commodity prices last month, farm income in the first quarter of this year is expected to reach a peak of $6.4 billion. For farmers, the only effect of the commodity drop, reported the Department of Agriculture, was to cut the size of their increase over 1947 from 12% for the month of January to an estimated 6% for the first quarter...
...voyages of Columbus had a very different effect. Men discovered, to their great annoyance, that Columbus' "spice island" was a vast continent which shut them off from the rich Indies; and they tried again & again to by-pass America and Russia by finding some northwest or northeast passage. Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable." So sure were these hardy Elizabethans of reaching their goal that they sheathed their cockleshell ships with lead, to protect the timbers from the worms of India...