Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rearmament on a scale Dr. Schacht has warned is beyond the practical limits of Germany's resources. From 1 p. m. until 6 p. m. one day last week General Göring conferred with the Führer, reputedly about accepting Dr. Schacht's resignation, without result. In vain resident U. S. wits filled in the vacuum of Herr Hitler's indecision by wisecracking: "Der Führer has fired the Schacht heard 'round the world...
...their acting. Working on a new play, they learn the lines by rote, rehearse interminably around the house. They work out scenes, time lines, until the author's conception, blended with some dash of Lunt-Fontanne sauce, is brought to a satisfactory simmer. For the audience the result looks like naturalness done to a turn. That this naturalness is frequently naughty is half the charm of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The other half is the reassuring fact which enables even the Old Lady from Dubuque to giggle at them with a clear conscience. For as one such...
Many Mansions was the product of a father-&-son collaboration. Jules Eckert Goodman, a weathered playwright (Potash and Perlmutter, 21 others), eagerly helped Son Eckert concoct his first play. The well-meant result is like Alice's Mock Turtle...
...Vearl Maudlin, made a survey and joyfully "discovered" that eight of the ten big anthracite producers and seven of the nine anthracite railroads were "controlled" by Morgan interests. In 1920 the Supreme Court ordered the anthracite carriers to divest themselves of their coal properties. According to Mr. Maudlin, the result of that order was that both mines and railroads fell into the hands of Morgan & friends. And Mr. Maudlin reported: "Under such a situation they can forego profits on the production of anthracite and recoup them in high freight rates, thereby forcing the independent companies . . . to operate on a very...
...strike binds everybody in the shop to take up the dispute of somebody they are not at all interested in, with the result that union officials have to hastily dig up enough grievances for everybody. ... It also is dangerous to the union because the worker is generally hard-headed enough to size up the dispute from his own standpoint and objects to losing time if he gains nothing thereby. . . The economic weapon, which in this case is placed in the hands of an individual wholly incapable of even figuring the extent of its magnitude or the possible result...