Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...groups of children-in height, weight, or hemoglobin and red cell count. General health seemed to favor the margarine boys & girls, but the doctors cautiously credited "other variables." Their conclusion : "Whether the greater part of the fat of the diet is derived from vegetable or animal sources has no effect on growth and health. .. . Margarine is a good source of table fat in growing children...
...took its medicine like a man. In effect, it ordered all hands to learn to say it simply or get out. And it plans to have Dr. Flesch read copy on its stories for a year. Last week, the A.P. professed to see an improvement, but was still finding plain English hard to write. In a memo to the staff, Assistant General Manager Alan Gould wrote: "Too frequently it seems that we contrive the hardest way to say some of the simplest things...
American Eagle. The free market in gold in Paris was also opened last week with little fanfare, though the price of gold was skyhigh. Example: an old U.S. double eagle $20 gold piece was quoted at 18,000 francs, three times the value of a $20 bill. In effect, gold was selling for $60 an ounce...
...Effect. The commodity break posed a big question. Was it the start of a healthy general shake-out of inflated prices, or the ominous warning of a recession? When grains broke in 1920 (see chart), other commodity prices sank with them and threw the whole economy into a temporary tailspin. Before last week's break, wholesale commodity prices (as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) were within 3.5 points of their 1920 peak. The grain prices had gone far above their post World War I high. Though the break had come too fast for official tabulation to keep...
...keep cut-rate pounds from being used to buy British exports, Britain set up a new control system in Paris to make sure only pounds bought at the official rate were used in Anglo-French trade. The Dutch and the Belgians were expected to follow the British lead-in effect, consign France to a monetary isolation ward...