Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, still sneering, Killer Chebatoris took the plunge that broke his neck. Obituary by Michigan's Murphy: "Michigan has led the world in the civilized attitude toward criminals. The hanging today was a blot on our century-old tradition, but I hope that it will have the effect of helping to abolish capital punishment from all the States in the Union...
...each nation presented its views, it became clear that there were two funda mental splits to be bridged before a plan could be put into effect...
...must be presumed that all space is filled with them, that they represent a vaster total of energy than star light - in fact, the greater part of the energy of the universe. If they are of Milky Way origin, however, their intensity is reasonably set down as an effect of "local" concentration...
...France, Private Bill Pettigrew (James Stewart) is stationed at Camp Merritt, near New York City. One evening he collides with a limousine containing glamorous Daisy Heath (Margaret Sullavan). Unaware of the nature of her attachment to her manager (Walter Pidgeon), Private Pettigrew falls in love. Aware of the effect of a rude disillusionment, Daisy makes a brave gesture that enables Private Pettigrew to sail for France with his sublimated devotion unimpaired...
...Steel's abandonment of the price differential in effect abolishes an umbrella it has held over the independents. With its plants strategically placed. Big Steel has little fear of losing its present share of business, but some competitors in less favorable spots last week faced heavy losses. Bethlehem Steel's factories at Buffalo and Sparrows Point, Md., for example, had to cut their price for steel plate $2 more than did Big Steel in order to equalize freight difference and the effects of removing price differentials. Bluff Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp., whose modern plant...