Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was feeling gloomy. In Manila he had been dismayed to see how successful the Russians were in getting their summit-meeting propaganda across to Asians. In Washington he found U.S. newspaper front pages giving solemn treatment to the old Russian proposals, which, in effect, were aimed at undermining the strong points of the free world. Dulles decided that it was high time to put on the record some reasons why the U.S. is dead set against going to a summit meeting on Russian terms...
...principle, Bricker had voted against the farm freeze. On point of principle, he assured his colleagues, he would vote to sustain a veto. But in the interests of helping farm-belt Republicans get elected this fall, he hoped the President would sign-and he favored a petition to that effect. That did it: the Republicans voted by show of hands to urge Ike to sign the bill that he had called a "180° turn in the wrong direction...
...CHRYSLERS with quickie retrimming job will be wheeled out this month to combat sales slump. Windsor, Saratoga and New Yorker models will have splashier trim all around, sweeping chrome strips along side and rear panels, plus mascara-like black paint around headlights for "space age effect...
...slice of all pre-tax profits above 10% of the value of shareholders' equity, i.e., the value of stocks plus surplus. Had the plan been in effect last year, each U.A.W. worker would have drawn a bonus of $591 at G.M., $500 at Ford, $323 at Chrysler. Estimated cost to G.M.: $275 million...
...biggest employer, might well flatten the U.A.W.'s $50 million strike chest, while a strike against lagging Chrysler could wreck Chrysler. But Reuther, who notes that the industry has 900,000 unsold 1958 models, is not eager for any strike at all. Says he: "The effect of a strike would be to deplete those inventories. We are very realistic and practical people, and we are not going to fall into that trap...