Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Household was appropriately shaken up by dismissals and appointments which had the effect last week of reducing the age of those in attendance upon His Majesty by about 20 years. King Edward is himself 28 years younger than was King George at death (TIME...
...lethal effect of ultraviolet light on whatever causes influenza proved exceedingly difficult to demonstrate. Bacteriologists do not know whether an ultramicroscopic germ causes that disease or whether an ultramicroscopic virus (which may be a living organism or an active chemical entity) is involved. Best means of cultivating that invisible something is in the body of a live ferret. Working with his wife, Dr. Mildred Washington Weeks Wells, and his laboratory associate, Dr. Harold W. Brown, Mr. Wells exposed ferrets to air which had been contaminated by influenza. If the germ-laden air had been exposed to ultraviolet light...
...assumption that ultraviolet light did have this lethal effect a number of U. S. hospitals irradiate the air of their operating rooms with artificial sunlamps. Last week it seemed reasonable to assume that modern theatres, auditoriums, stores and offices which filter and condition their air may also irradiate it with ultraviolet light...
Catastrophe was the only word to describe the effect of Amoskeag's collapse on Manchester's 76,000 inhabitants. Manchester grew up around the Amoskeag mills. Over half of the very land it stands on was sold or deeded to the city by Amoskeag owners. Since 1805 Amoskeag has provided the city's business lifeblood. At the peak of its prosperity in 1921, Amoskeag's red-brick plants, stretching for almost a mile along the Merrimack River (see cut), employed 18,000 workers, paid nearly one-half the city's industrial payroll. Last week Amoskeag...
...cycle came back into the liquor business for the first time since Repeal. National Distillers, No. 1 U. S. whiskey producer, announced that seven of its nine distilleries had been shut down until October. With heated warehouses, National's decision had nothing to do with summer's effect on whiskey's flavor. Reason given was that National plants, after running continuously since Repeal, needed overhauling and replacements. Plain fact was that National, like the rest of the industry, feared overproduction...