Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will deal with neither. In 48, whether one or the other has exclusive representation, the corporation will continue to deal with local union committees. Meantime, pending decision of the rival claims by the courts or the National Labor Relations Board, G. M. will not talk amendment (or, in effect, renewal) of its national contract with either union. G. M. was showing its muscle...
...year approaches its close, I prefer to particularly think (sic) of the boys who are to be rewarded for their interest and effort by a recommendation to the effect that their record, in all respects, is good; that their attitude has been satisfactory and is changing for the better; that their viewpoint towards the future is sensible and sound; that they, in short, have done the best they could to get full value out of the present school year...
Putting the new rates in effect this month, to step up this summer's vacation and World's Fair travel, the cautious Easterns announced they would try them until next January, will continue them if, as plainly indicated by past experience, they work...
After these symptoms had developed, Dr. Patton gave each of the sick dogs a small injection of pure vitamin B1 "The effect," he reported, "was . . . spectacular. [The injection] transformed a racing, howling maniac, or one in appalling convulsions, frothing at the mouth and screeching piteously, into a quiet though nervous animal within four hours, and in 48 hours into a normal, healthy, playful puppy...
...Northwestern University brought hopeful data last week. In Science they reported that "extracts of normal male urine," injected in small amounts, "are very potent in inhibiting gastric secretion" of dogs. What the inhibiting agent of urine was, they could not say, nor did they venture to predict its effect on human beings...