Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widespread belief that . . . only by releasing from corporate control the faculties of the unknown many . . . can confidence in our future be restored. ... If the citizens of Florida share that belief, I know of nothing in the Federal Constitution which precludes the State from endeavoring to give it effect. . . . To that extent, the citizens of each State are still masters of their destiny...
...such a bombing produced its theoretical effect, the breakdown of civilian morale, but there were signs last week to show that in Catalonia at least it might. Catalans who indulge in street fighting at a hat's drop are in general poor soldiers. For a full year they frankly shirked their full share of Leftist fighting, partly because not one foot of Catalan territory is yet invaded by Rightist troops. Now, suddenly, they find that not only has their autonomous Catalan Government been practically swallowed by the Valencia regime, which fortnight ago moved its Spanish Leftist Government...
...significant fat is obviously on the fire. To see it sputter, Mrs. Anne O'Hare Mc-Cormick of the New York Times touched at Algiers last week, and upon her ever sympathetic shoulder French colonists who are bearing the white man's burden in North Africa in effect sobbed their fears...
...Special effect Specialist James Basevi (San Francisco) learned from hurricane survivors that hurricane sounds vary according to the shape and solidity of objects in the path of the wind. Scale models of buildings and trees were placed in a governed wind stream, and the differing effects recorded. Then Goldwyn engineers stepped up the recording pitch by the same ratio that existed between the scale models and the actual set, got the authentic sound of wind velocities as high as 250 m.p.h...
...assembled bankers unanimously agreed with President Hall when he accused the undistributed profits tax and the capital gains tax of being the major hurdles in the path of future financing volume. Said he: "Something could be done by Congress about these two unsound methods of taxation which in effect offer immediate cash prizes for the conduct of one's business and personal affairs in a manner which otherwise would be contrary to all rules of prudence and common sense...