Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show with what varying impact social security taxes will fall upon employers, the Manhattan brokerage house of Weingarten & Co. last week issued a table of the ratio of labor costs to total business in a score of industries. Labor costs mean wages, and wages are what employers will pay taxes on-in 1937, 2% for unemployment insurance, i% for old age insurance. Averaging for the last 20 years...
...Seven Sinners" is a murder mystery which is kept in active motion by the impact of three disastrous train wrecks. The lottery that selects the villain has returned once more to the detective. This selection might very well be guessed by anyone with his wits about him, for besides the American hero-slueth Edmund Lowe, there is a malignant-looking French detective, who could scarcely be put to any honest use. Movie blood-hounds hunt in mixed pairs, and the mediocre Mr. Lowe has by his side Miss Constance Cummings, who in spite of her early promise seems to have...
Unfortunately director Leroy devotes a lot of film to developing this profusion of plot, and the impact of the central idea is lost. Anthony is a tragic figure hounded by misfortune. He is unable to take his bride to Havana because a letter she leaves him is blown away by the wind. Business conditions force him to spend many years in Africa while he loses touch with his wife. When the lovers are finally united she has become so compromised in court intrigue and gossip that she cannot join him in America. The great ambition of the orphan...
Conductor Barbirolli earned better marks, and easily passed his New York entrance examination with a suave Mozart symphony and a heroic Brahms Fourth, wherein New York Times Critic Olin Downes discovered "virility, grip, lyrical opulence, and on occasion the impact of the bear's paw." Said the New York Herald Tribune's, Lawrence Oilman: "He has disclosed himself as a musician of taste and fire and intensity, electric, vital, sensitive, dynamic, experienced; as an artist who knows his way among the scores he elects to set before us, who has mastered not only his temperament but his trade...
...achieve a good likeness (see cut, p. 89) to the unhappy genius who wrote, among other things, a poem called The Raven. These commendable efforts go unrewarded, for Plumes in the Dust seems to be concerned with an unpleasant man surrounded by unpleasant people, presented with all the dramatic impact of a glass of sour milk...