Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the impact of the shows, run on successive days (with new motorcar model exhibitions as a sideshow-see p. 76), the eyes and pencils of 500 newsmen reeled. For in switching a big part of their vast productive machinery to making implements of war, G.M. and Ford (like Chrysler) have gone in for a more bewildering variety of products than they ever made before. News stories of the two shows were crammed with lists and statistics, from pinhead-sized ball bearings to four-motored bombers, passed over the new automobiles with a once-over-lightly...
...beginning, when the Allies were in despair, Woodrow Wilson published his famed Fourteen Points. Their impact was immediate, enormous, beyond all hopes. Little peoples of Central Europe scrambled for what they now saw clearly, for the first time, were their rights: self-determination of government, open covenants, freedom of the seas, removal of trade barriers, a general association of nations on principles of good will, reduction of armaments. The 14 points became the greatest victory of the war, and Woodrow Wilson was the victor...
...begin daily services in schools, 4) arrange for textbooks on religion, 5) appoint Government inspectors of religion. -Said these signatories: "The present struggle is clearly one between a regime embracing a crude and reactionary paganism, finding expression in material force and destroying truth, freedom and justice wherever its impact is felt, and ourselves and those who have the declared purpose of establishing these more firmly in the common life of the world as the foundation of that new and better social order...
Only one of the President's points on which a fight was expected in the House was the committee proposal to make joint returns mandatory. Congressmen feared its impact on the women's vote, thought wives might imagine that it somehow abridged their rights. When they marshaled their forces in the House this week, they obliterated the joint-returns proposal like a Panzer division going through a troop of Girl Scouts. They did not even stop to fill the $323,000,000 gap where joint returns had been. Instead, they rolled on, passed the rest of the bill...
...impact on U.S. business was not so marked (see p. 61). The U.S. woman, it appeared, by 1941's end would have a choice of 1) going barelegged, 2) buying Nylon stockings which might be unprocurable, or 3) wearing cotton stockings...