Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declaring the contract void was that its "precipitate granting" smacked of trickery since the corporation well knew that the A. F. of L. union "did not represent the free choice of a majority of its employes." Therefore the Board ordered a plant election. Last week it was held. Result: 780-to-675 in favor...
...which the Dictator considers more loyal to himself than older Russians with memories of how things used to be-was gravely slowing down Soviet industrial production last week. The Moscow censor even passed a dispatch announcing: "Bolshevik leaders no longer deny that the drop in industrial output is a result of the extensive replacements of personnel. They assert, however, that the drop is temporary and that the replacements were necessary to regear the apparatus thoroughly...
...Meeting of Indiana, located near Richmond, Ind. with 16,000 members who differ from most Quakers in having formal services with paid pastors. The combined Race Street and Arch Street Meetings of Philadelphia (15,000) are now practically reunited, after having been respectively Hicksite and Orthodox Quakers as a result of a schism a century ago.* Next largest are the Africa Eastern Group (7,000), the Madagascar Yearly Meeting (6,000), the Guatemala Yearly Meeting (3,600). Once, 17 years ago a world conference of Friends was held in London. Last week 1,000-odd members of the world...
...rose to speak in Salt Lake City's Hotel Utah before 350 delegates to the 49th annual convention of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners. "The logical solution of the railroad difficulties," he drawled, "seems to be one national railroad system. Such a system should result in a simple rate structure, no differently rated territories, uniform tariff classifications, transportation wastes reduced to a minimum, and many other manifest benefits. . . ." More significant were other remarks by Chairman Miller on the matter of railroad freight rates. Without particularizing, he declared that the I. C. C. is conducting an intensive...
Unfounded rumors of silver shipments totaling $100,000,000 from Canton and other cities in the interior of China to Hong Kong broke the price of bar silver in London to a new 1937 low of 19¼d (43?) an oz., 1½? below the U. S. price. Result- the U. S. Treasury therefore became a heavy buyer until the price differential was erased. Arbitragers promptly took advantage of the same situation, and 3,175,000 ounces of their silver last week arrived in Manhattan. On a war scare virtually all principal foreign currencies developed weaknesses against the dollar...