Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First result of their parleys was announced by Homer Martin. He was preparing a blanket union contract for some 2,000 plants which make parts for Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, et al.; parts makers who are, of course, dependent upon their big customers for economic life. A standard contract would fix the minimum hourly wage at 65? for some 250,000 supply plant workers...
...Franklin Roosevelt said of Munich in the course of his remarks on the Dies Committee (see p. 7): "Three weeks ago the civilized world was threatened by the immediate outbreak of a world war. Cool heads pleaded for the continuance of negotiations. People may properly differ as to the result of such negotiations, but the fact remains that bloodshed was averted." The President thus lined up with Chamberlain and Halifax on the major premise that not only war but a "world war" did actually threaten, that not fake but authentic "bloodshed was averted...
...election day thousands of impoverished, illiterate industrial workers and underpaid, overworked pampinos from the nitrate fields in the north, cast their ballots for Candidate Aquirre. Result was an upset to the hacendados, confident of victory. Aquirre defeated Ross by a narrow margin of 4,000 votes...
...made up of truth and belief; and, if he is deceived into the belief that he has, or is liable to have, a disease, the belief is catching and the result follows...
...projected college is flanked on one side by the Colonial-type Timothy Dwight college, and on the other by the Dwight college, and on the other by the Gothic Van-Sheff buildings, with the result that it is feared in New Haven that a combination of the two styles will be employed, as it has been in Davenport College...