Word: effecters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every veteran studying or planning to study under the GI Bill of Rights will have to meet two new government regulations which go into effect today. The new regulations replace Instruction 1A, which was repealed on October...
Roscoes Out. Guardsmen with walkie-talkies yelled into their instruments; an ambulance came screaming up the drive. Its driver bawled: "Where are the wounded?" The effect of all this was spectacular: Lieut. Porterfield had told nobody-not even the Capitol police-that he was "recapturing" the Capitol from an imaginary but bloodthirsty...
...their use of color the paintings of the impressionists were like windows looking out onto sun-filled space. Van Gogh's were more like lamps; the powerful contrasts of pure color created an effect of light-vibration which was not confined to the pictures themselves but seemed to radiate from them. And where the impressionists minimized drawing, he applied an oriental concept that he had learned from studying the woodcuts of the 19th Century Japanese artists, Hiroshige and Hokusai. To Van Gogh, as to the Japanese, line was more than a lasso for capturing shapes...
...exports to the U.S., Taylor's committee came to one hardheaded conclusion: the U.S. must increase its European imports by $2 billion a year or its own exports will wither away and European living conditions will :all to a dangerous level. Unless this is done, he said in effect, much of the good accomplished by EGA (expenditures more han $7 billion to date) will be thrown away...
...since. Between 1914 and 1949, America's exports exceeded her imports by $101 billion. This "socalled favorable balance of trade," said the report, was largely paid for by $68 billion in Government loans & grants to Europe and more than $10 billion in private gifts. These grants "have in effect been unconscious subsidies to American export industries" at the expense of American taxpayers. The subsidies could be eliminated, or at least cut, only by drastic changes in U.S. and European ways of doing business. Among its other proposals...