Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Upshot: no patent on Clostridium saccharo-butyl-acetonicum-liquefaciens...
...were the American Lutherans, meeting in the ultra-plain parish hall of Detroit's Salem's Lutheran Church. Said ruddy, robust Dr. Emmanuel Poppen of Columbus, Ohio, their president: "The church's 1,600 pastors and 2,000 congregations must have an opportunity to be heard." Upshot: the American Lutherans expressed a fervent hope that they and the United Lutherans might both soon be united with the Missouri Synod. They appointed a new commission to continue negotiations...
...Upshot of this assignment: New York City was "swept clean" of streetwalkers and Dr. Flexner got a key to the Rockefeller millions. In his 15 years on the Rockefeller General Education Board, Dr. Flexner helped create top-notch medical schools all over the U. S., launched progressive Lincoln School, steered the Rockefeller wealth into many another exemplary enterprise. When he retired from G. E. B. in 1928, philanthropists refused to give him peace, implored him to spend their money. At the urging of Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger, Dr. Flexner took $5,000,000 to start the Institute for Advanced Study...
...little grey houses. Love interest is Ned's tenderness for Milldy, a mute Ozark urchin. After a raid on the general store, in which Pop Fulton is shot, angry Ned leads the gaunt, drought-mad farmers to the county seat for a sit-down demonstration demanding Federal relief. Upshot is a wild battle between "Red"-fearing townsfolk and desperate rustics. Dozens of both are killed when a building collapses, leaving Ned in a hospital to wonder if sister Wilhelmina will carry on, readers to wonder whether Author Rothermell's gory climax is not too convenient an ending...
...imagination of the war-scared U. S. by offering to turn out 1,000 airplanes a day if the Government would let him do it his way. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau grasped at the magnanimous offer, called Son Edsel to Washington to discuss what Ford might make. Upshot: Edsel tentatively agreed to make 6,000 Rolls-Royce liquid-cooled engines for Great Britain...