Word: resultant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be in a hell of a fix if we had followed Mr. Chamberlain. We would be in the same fix we were in as a result of the Stimson incident [1932] when he and Sir John Simon endeavored to halt Japan's early conquest of North China . . . holding...
...Producer Goldwyn's pertinacity. Having convinced Heifetz with difficulty that it was his "duty" to make a movie, Goldwyn went to work on an ambitious story about a Jewish musician exiled from Germany, was brought up short when Heifetz refused to do any acting off a concert platform. Result was that Goldwyn had no story ready when Heifetz reported in Hollywood between concert tours last summer. In desperation, when Heifetz refused to wait for his $70,000, Goldwyn had him work it out in four strenuous weeks of recording everything from semi-popular music to concertos...
...standing by to tell all. Before sending their signal, the engineers spent forty-five minutes twirling the knobs of 40 short-wave receivers, trying to catch a signal from Mars, where the highest form of life is generally believed to be some low form of vegetation, possibly resembling moss. Result: a potpourri of short-wave noises, most of them promptly identified...
...Production recovered sharply in steel, but there too the advance threatens to result in new inventory trouble. After an extra-seasonal July 4 drop, the steel rate snapped back first to 56.4% of capacity, then to 60%, its 1939 high, and the trade predicted 65% operations yet to come. This continued a June trend: ingots were still being stacked up in anticipation of rush orders from the auto industry late in the summer. After Labor Day it may turn out, however, that Detroit's fall steel needs are being filled...
...make good average losses of 16% of the deposits of 252 insured banks that closed or were taken over. Meantime FDIC has taken in $167,400,000 ($124,200,000 of it from ½ of 1% assessments on bank deposits, $43,200,000 from its investments and profits). Result: FDIC has a surplus of $131,244,960, of which $36,043,673 was added last year...