Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcement struck the $150 million-a-year industry like a bombshell. The garment makers pay low wages, and only about 7,000 whites are willing to work for them. If the edict were put into effect, cried the clothing manufacturers, "we'd have to sack nearly 40,000 Negroes, and we can't get whites to take their place...
Benson did catch it during and after the 1954 elections. Farm state republicans began to murmur for his resignation and the murmur increased its intensity with the sagging farm economy, the declining farm population, and the 1956 elections. Despite this criticism, Benson was not the man to effect a Nixon-like change in values, and continued in his position of refusing to heavily subsidize the farmer...
...into focus on the retina at the back of the eyeball but focuses them at a point in front of it. A myopic youngster's glasses have to be changed every year or two (sometimes oftener) because, as he grows, his eyeball lengthens and the out-of-focus effect gets worse. Though this early myopia usually stabilizes when growth ends, it may have become so severe that glasses could not possibly provide 20/20 or even 20/30 vision; some victims end with less than 10% of useful vision, meaning that they are technically and legally blind...
...country in the world." He keeps up the old reformer's unreformed habit of issuing letters-to-the-editor on every subject from Freud to fission. He is never discouraged, but even if he were, says Mary, there is always Bernard Shaw's consoling thought to the effect that even Jesus failed...
...story develops, it gradually begins to dawn on the simple heroine that what her father feeds on is power. Having used her to put away her drunken and embarrassing mother, he proposes, in effect, to buy his daughter's regard on his deathbed by offering her all he is worth. Not too bright, surrounded by the old man's covetous relatives, and wanting only peace and marriage to a weak-willed young man she has fallen in love with, Alberte knows only that she must escape the maze of greed that Threatens to trap her. Refusing her father...