Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsidiary Alabama Power Co. A similar action was brought by Duke Power Co. against Greenwood County, S. C., which obtained a PWA loan and grant for construction of the Buzzard Roost hydro-electric project on the Saluda River. Both companies charged that PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes was in effect using his program as a "club" to drive down private rates. Denied injunctions, company attorneys brought both cases to the Supreme Court...
...heat, X-rays or mechanical means also caused the hormones to be released, and they were obtained not only from yeast cells but from liver, kidney, embryo and other tissues. Dr. Sperti therefore decided that he had come upon a general phenomenon associated with cell injury. Since one effect of the hormone was to multiply cells rapidly, it seemed possible that unknown hormones of the same type might be the cause of the unhealthy cell proliferation which constitutes cancer. But since the fluid from radiated yeast brought about normal, not abnormal cell proliferation, the prospect arose of using...
...system of Junior Ushers now in effect should be abolished because a majority of the jobs are mechanical duties which could be more thoroughly performed through an expansion of the regular Commencement Week service force. With this highly organized force the average Junior Usher, even at present, conflicts when he attempts to use his imagination to find work...
...descended on London. It was not the fog, however, which brought tears to British eyes and lumps to millions of British throats. Loyal subjects, drawn in sympathy to King George VI as never before, heard His Majesty bravely make a Christmas broadcast, his halting voice strained with emotion. In effect what the King had to tell his people was that the great effort to overcome his speech impediment, an effort which he has made for years and, which carried him through his Coronation without skipping or mispronouncing a single word (TIME, May 24), was too great for him to continue...
...overwhelmed by more than a decade of overproduction. In 1926 Cuba tried a single-handed experiment in limitation, but as she cut her production, rival nations expanded theirs. Cuba then sponsored the plan of Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne whereby all sugar-producing nations adopted export quotas. Put into effect in 1931, the Chadbourne plan failed to raise prices because its quotas were too high in the face of declining world sugar demand. In 1932 the average world price of sugar fell to .9? a lb., well below the cost of production. Since then it has never recovered...