Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ernie Bevin, Britain's explosive Foreign Secretary, pulled a hot potato out of the fire in a foreign policy debate in Parliament and tossed it into the lap of his old wartime cabinet colleague Winston Churchill. Britain's present plight in Germany, said Bevin, was the direct result of the "unconditional surrender" policy adopted at Casablanca by Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Winnie passed the buck in a hurry. The policy, he said, was all Roosevelt's idea; he himself had not been consulted before it was proclaimed...
...Manhattan this week Philco Corp. came out with its version of the built-in aerial. It would work, said Philco engineers, in about 80% of present-day receiving locations. Just in case the saving on installation costs was not enough, Philco at the same time cut prices sharply. Sample result: last year a consolette with a 72-sq.-in. picture cost $439.50 plus installation fee; this year a full console with a 97-sq.-in. picture cost...
...Signed the Housing bill, the only major piece of domestic Fair Deal legislation to pass Congress so far. Result: Uncle Sam will soon help pay the rent of one million U.S. families every month...
...covering his "strange dichotomy," first for the Guardian and now for the Kemsley newspapers (the Sunday Times, the Sunday Chronicle), Cardus has played a deft prose symphony of his own that weaves through both his fields the tonal majesty of one, the rhythmic action of the other. The result bewitches more readers than it baffles...
...some odd maneuvering by the Treasury itself. Two years ago several distillers asked it to approve, as legally aged, whisky stored in used casks during the wartime barrel shortage. Treasury refused, but later reversed itself. The switch would mean a profit (because of the increased value that would result) of some $90 million for a few big distillers, mostly outside Kentucky, who have 30 million gallons of whisky in secondhand barrels. When the industry squawked, Treasury held up its ruling, called last week's hearing...