Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instance of a number of crackpots, speculators, inflationists, amateur economists and the Senators from six Western States, the U. S. embarked upon a silver-buying program. To date the most conspicuous result of the Administration's silver policy is that the Treasury in a little more than four years has purchased about 1400,000,000 oz. of a metal whose prime characteristic is its futility. And much of it was purchased at prices considerably above last week's quotation of 44¾ per oz., which is an entirely artificial figure since the U. S. has been buying most...
...result of the hearings held before me on March 11, 18, and 21, 1938, I regret to inform you that I feel obliged to remove, and do hereby remove you as member and chairman of the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority. This removal is to become effective as and from March...
...railroad system, but the casualties in the city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that our bombs exploded the ammunition dump and the crash of the boxes of dynamite, cartridges and so forth turned the neighborhood of the station into an inferno...
...innumerable faces on the cutting room floor. What remained was more fustian than fun, a pursuit through high & low worlds of a popular, penniless French marquis working his way, via the scullery, into a cinema star's boudoir. In spite of Actress Lombard's strident earthiness, the result is as unearthly as Actor Gravet's French-flavored, concave British inflection, as wooden as Charlie McCarthy-whom Actor Gravet, in claw-hammer coat & starchy shirt front, resembles more than he does Windsor...
...Germany, Italy, Russia, schools are ruthlessly used by dictators to preach their own doctrines. The result is so effective that many an unconvinced parent dare not speak his opinions in his own home for fear that an overconvinced child may denounce him to the authorities. Last week a Purdue University professor, painstaking, blond Dr. Herman H. Remmers, gave a spectacular scientific demonstration of how effective propaganda might be made in U. S. schools...