Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What happened, according to hardworking, pacific Mr. Davis, not only upset his plan but threatened the future course of labor mediation: The picket line dispersed; the company took some strikers back, but failed to give them their old jobs. Upshot: union men walked out again...
...upshot of all this is the return of Russia to the Gospel, it will not be the first time the faith has been propagated by the extremities of war. Constantine gave Christianity official status in Rome in Gratitude for his victory at the Milvian Bridge. Clovis made the Franks Christians after winning the Battle of Tolbiac. Charlemagne made the Germans Christians with death as the alternative. Much good probably came of these earlier conversions, more good may come of the President's deal...
When word of Polin's experiments leaked out, President Vargas appointed a committee to invite Polin to Brazil, try to develop commercial production of his plastics. Upshot: an agreement under which Polin has leased his patents to the Brazilian Government for 15 years, will serve as technical adviser at plants built by the Government...
...asked motorists in 16 Atlantic States voluntarily to cut gasoline consumption one-third. To see how voluntary reduction works, Ickes also asked 19 large oil retailers to compile weekly retail-sales reports. Hot-headed Harold Ickes will get even hotter if the figures show the noncompliance everyone expects. Probable upshot: gasoline ration cards (or a reasonable facsimile) by fall...
...history, last week faced the fact that next year would be one of its toughest. In Washington, OPM officials and 56 top-drawer auto executives met behind closed doors for an overdue session of plain talk about the wartime role of the nation's greatest peacetime industry. Upshot: not many automobiles will be made in Detroit next year, but a lot more munitions. Bill Knudsen promised to triple the industry's present defense contracts to $6,000,000,000. But as for the 20% cut in '42 new-car production agreed on last May, that "doesn...