Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enterprise, with co-operation on the part of Government, can advance to higher levels of industrial activity than those reached earlier this year. . . . Such advance will assure balanced budgets. . . . If private enterprise does not respond, Government must take up the slack. ..." On the subject of taxes, the President in effect reiterated what his Secretary of the Treasury had said a few days earlier (see p. 16), in proposing to remove "unjust provisions." He also warned that "modifications adequate to encourage productive enterprises, especially for the smaller businesses, must not extend to the point of using the corporate form...
...Hamilton filed a petition to reorganize under Section 77B of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Last year Illinois' onetime Attorney General Oscar Carlstrom. the club's 43rd president, desperately got its members' consent to delete the word "Republican" from the charter and open membership to Democrats, chief effect of which was that a number of crusty Republican diehards huffily resigned. Another last-minute expedient was to lease part of the clubhouse to Chicago's Interfraternity Council. But last week Democratic Federal Judge William H. Holly ordered the Hamilton to liquidate in favor of the Fuller estate, appointed...
Intellectually. Artist Blickenderfer's neo-scopes are ingenious. Effect of them is to place the spectator not at a framed "window'' but inside the scene painted. Artistically, as modest Artist Blickenderfer agrees, they are at best experimental...
Instruments of this type are among the fastest recording devices know to the engineering sciences. Among the researches under way at the present time are studies of the effect of humidity on high-voltage discharges under steady and transient conditions, high pressure arcs, and the development of new applications for power rectifiers and inverters. These researches have already led to the publication of a number of important technical contributions...
...another apparently insoluble problem in the front steps. For anyone of nearly normal stature, it is impossible to go straight up or down these steps with-all using a restrained gait that can be described only as "mincing." And if two steps are included in one stride, the general effect is that of a gallop, certainly unbecoming to the Widener at-phosphere...