Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchester Country Club, observing that no one had yet filed for the Republican Congressional primaries in their district, egged on their friend to put in his name. Golfer Jenks, who in the previous 70 years of his career had never given politics a thought, did exactly that. Result of this haphazard gesture has been for Golfer Jenks one of the most tantalizing experiences in the history of U. S. legislation...
...they had every reason not to waste ammunition and divide their strength by taking on another battle in Shanghai. Whether the navy's Shanghai move was a blunder, or whether the Japanese demands were a bluff which the Chinese called-perhaps more out of excitement than shrewdness-the result was a war big enough to endanger Japan's precarious economic structure. For the longer the war lasts, the greater, almost inevitably, will be Chinese defeats, but the greater also the danger of economic collapse in Japan...
...women of Hollywood have, by and large, never dressed for each other or for men, but for the camera, which makes more extravagant demands than either. Result is that many a smart cinemagoer is as likely as not to snigger at the West Coast's idea of haute couture. The greater credit, therefore, to producer Walter Wanger that in building a show on women's styles, he managed to make the styles sufficiently sound to be featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan...
...paper, is assigned to cover the movements of a U. S. film star (Olive Blakeney) whom Scotland Yard suspects of being an international jewel thief. Pat, determined to dog her quarry to earth's end, signs on as the actress's maid, quickly gets into difficulties which result in her hiding in a trunk. Next thing she knows she is aboard a liner which is returning the cinemactress to the U. S. Also aboard is a young detective (Barry Mackay) and a U. S. gangster (Nat Pendleton), both of whom mistake Pat for the thief. The gangster...
...East Texas, 80% of which it owns. Last year when Texas production seemed excessive the Texas Railroad Commission ordered a reduction in the allowable for the Van Field, compelling Pure Oil to buy 11,000,000 barrels from other producers-twice as much as the year before. As a result Pure Oil's profit for 1936, $7,658,000 was nearly $500,000 less than in 1935. This year, though Texas has raised its proration. Pure Oil needs all the new production it can get to meet the greatly increased demand...