Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the workers themselves did not contribute. But the board, arguing that "a part of normal business costs is to take care of temporary and permanent depreciation in the human 'machine,' " upheld Murray. Although it trimmed his demands, it allowed 6? for pensions (to go into effect next spring), 4? for insurance. Many companies already have insurance plans; they would be taken into consideration. The board figures were the maximum each company would have...
...beyond its means. Harry Truman had already given the policy his approval. In January he had deplored deficit spending, but by July he had decided that deficit spending would be all right. In fact, said he, it was necessary for "continued economic expansion." "Last week the Senate voted in effect to underwrite Harry Truman's economics...
Secretaries John Snyder and Dean Acheson, the British envoys would be primed to show that Britain's dollar shortage could not be blamed primarily on her costly social services or nationalization plans. It was the cumulative effect of a powerful historic cause...
Many appliance makers were feeling the effect of the expiration of consumer credit controls (installment credit rose to an alltime peak of $9.3 billion in July). General Electric Co.'s President Charles E. Wilson said that the outlook was bright (see below) and that G.E.'s appliance business had picked up more than it usually does in the summer. Other appliance makers, who had cut back for lack of orders in the spring, were once more allocating some goods and calling back furloughed workers...
...contemporary speech." Why not write it in prose? Explained Eliot: "There are lots of things you can't say in prose. I can write verse better than prose. When it is colloquially spoken, the very rhythm gets under people's skins and has a kind of atmospheric effect . . . The effect of first-rate verse should be to make us believe that there are moments in life when poetry is the natural form of expression of ordinary men and women...