Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painkiller, amidone has performed brilliantly. It is used in smaller doses than morphine, does not produce morphine's pipe-dreamy effect, sometimes kills pain after morphine has failed...
...York) increase their reserves another 6%. Why didn't it do so? As for Eccles' new plan, Sproul gave it the back of his hand. Said he: "It would expose us to grave monetary disorders. ... A program of modest steps may well be cumulative in effect, in the present sensitive money and credit situation...
...taken. Eccles' new plan was about dead. The House Banking & Currency Committee recommended that Federal Reserve banks be required to back their currency notes by 40% in gold, the same ratio as prewar (it had been dropped to 25% as a war measure). This would have no immediate effect; reserves are actually at 49% now. Nor would the proposed rise in the rediscount rate; it was too small to be more than psychological in effect...
This time Railroader Robert R. Young, who likes to dish it out, had to take it. In a report last week, Interstate Commerce Commission Examiner Charles Edward Boles thumbed down Young's plea to join the board of New York Central Railroad Co., and, in effect, control it by voting his 6% holding in Central stock...
With his first-run business assured, Cinemagnate Skouras has yielded a few points to the Legion; now, he hopes, Amber will meet less resistance in neighborhood theaters, where the Legion's disapproval might take greater effect. "Certain . . . eliminations" have been made and there is a moral-pointing prologue: "This is the tragic story of Amber St. Clare. Slave to ambition, stranger to virtue. Fated to find the wealth and power she ruthlessly gained wither to ashes in the fires lit by passion and fed by defiance of the eternal command. The wages of sin is death...