Word: effected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles E. Whittaker: 1) the Secretary of State is authorized by precedents reaching back to 1856 to preside over passports, period-and never more so than in times of national emergency, and that 2) President Truman's declaration of national emergency, proclaimed in 1950, is still in specific effect, thereby giving the Secretary of State wider discretion over passports...
...government would have to raise an unthinkable $1 billion or $2 billion to build enough plants to industrialize the island. Without ado, Muñoz & Co. sold the government-owned plants to get capital for what Moscoso calls the "incentive and promotional approach," aimed at giving a "multiplier effect" to the government's investment. Instead of "permitting" (in the word of many a nationalist demagogue) the entry of outside capital, Puerto Rico resolved to dragoon or inveigle...
...braw Commons debate on disarmament with bluff-browed Laborite Aneurin Bevan, Defense Minister Duncan Sandys, himself the bairn of a Cameron mother, piped up for the costume of his hardy northern kinsmen. Swedish scientists, he told the House, have found that the "unnatural heat" caused by wearing trousers could effect up to 1,000 times more genetic damage to men than radiation. "They conclude." added Sassenach-bred Sandys, "by recommending the general adoption of the Scottish kilt...
...AECmen intend to study the rock under the coastline. Some kinds of rock absorb more neutrons than others and become more radioactive. The hardness of the rock is important too, because it controls to some extent the amount of nuclear energy that must be used to produce the desired effect...
...little price cutting cropped up in the Detroit area, where Great Lakes Steel Corp. chopped prices $2 a ton. But it was strictly a cut to meet local competition and not likely to spread. The industry soon expects to hike prices to cover the automatic wage increase going into effect on July 1. Consensus: probably...