Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government loans, wound up with a carry-over sufficient to depress this year's prices. So Mr. Wallace invoked the powers-granted him in the new AAA, instituted drastic control, got a majority of farmers to approve by referendum. Last week Mr. Wallace's analysts announced the result: a cultivated acreage of 26,904,000, lower than any since the Department of Agriculture began to keep tabs in 1909, and a prospective crop of about 12,000,000 bales (unofficially indicated, because Federal law prohibits official bale forecasts before August...
...particles or barytrons, was suspected by Anderson and his co-workers in 1934, and later discovered almost simultaneously by him and Drs. Jabez Curry Street & Edward Stevenson of Harvard. These queer little particles appear to originate about ten miles above the earth's surface as a result of collisions between primary cosmic ray particles and air atoms. Calculations of their mass have yielded figures from 110 to 400 times the weight of an ordinary electron...
...Commission polished off a two-year investigation of the farm-equipment industry by proposing a major change in the 24-year-old Clayton Anti-Trust Act. This product of the first trust-busting era made it illegal for one company to purchase the capital stock of another when the result might substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly. FTC claims that the farm-equipment industry is an example of this law's effective evasion through the purchase of competitors' assets rather than stock. FTC therefore recommended to Congress that the Clayton Act be revised so that...
...business policies of companies may be warped by forces remote," he cites the participation of National City Bank and Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in the famed campaign to peg copper prices artificially high in the late 1920s in order to grab extra profits from sale of securities. Inevitable result was chaos in the industry and the price broke from...
...Result of such mid-Victorian restrictions and the finishing schools' training, says Miss Ogden, is that their graduates: 1) become too much interested in men, 2) overemphasize their own importance, 3) become class-conscious, 4) know very little about the world. Farmington's most famed alumna is Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow...