Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engaging frankness of this engraved announcement titillated Washington last week. It indicated that the result of Franklin Roosevelt's one Purge success was to supply Washington with one more high-powered lobbyist. For the rest, that success looked singularly hollow: the important House Rules Committee was in such a mess that the New Deal gave up hope of organizing it before Congress met this week. Illinois' old Representative Adolph Joachim Sabath to whom chairmanship of the committee was scheduled to pass, by seniority, because of recalcitrant Mr. O'Connor's defeat, faced an unhappy situation...
Clinicians have given prolactin to human mothers to stimulate milk production. Result: some successes, some failures. In the failures, however, the mammary tissue of the mother was usually itself deficient. The job of preparing the mammary tissue for nursing seems to belong to the sex hormones estrone and progesterone. Prolactin's job is to start milk secretion after the breasts are ready...
...result of such attitudes as this, says Dr. Riddle, "an eviscerated straw man is set up in place of the reality. . . . Many millions of our present and future citizens are robbed of a biological outlook, or they get one that is warped and unrecognizable...
...value, simultaneously paying off Ohio Goodyear's bank debt and canceling the profit from the stock sale. However, on the paper profit ($1,598,000) from acquiring the debentures at the written-down figure, Seiberling Rubber Co. must pay a 19% capital-gains tax of $303,620. Net result: Seiberling Rubber retired its $3,100,000 loan by a cash outlay of $1,805,620 (plus interest). F. A. lost on the deal-but won because his company benefited...
Broker Joseph Sisto, debonair son of Italian immigrants, spoke no English until he was ten, worked his way through high school and Wall Street to found his own firm in 1922. His first suspension was the result of overexpansion nipped by depression. Broker Sisto, good friend of Benito Mussolini, was in Italy visiting his many clients there when the crash came. He sped home, quickly arranged to pay his creditors 50? on the dollar, made up the balance with shares in Sisto Financial Corp., his personal investment trust...