Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants to keep the miners on his side and yet maintain some semblance of consistency in wage-ceiling policy, reacted to the situation as only Harry Truman can. He summoned Lewis and Harry Moses, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, to a 24-minute White House conference. Upshot, in Truman's words: 1) "The operators . . . are prepared to start paying immediately $1.50 of the wage increase now allowable and to set aside available for payment to the miners, when & if approved, the balance of the increase amounting to 40? per day, retroactive...
...sole upshot was a criminal charge of "blaspheming" leveled against Lawrence R. Holland '52 by a female Feeny disciple, believed to be Catharine Goddard Clarke, author of The Loyolas and the Cabots," a history of the Center...
...Office fired off an angry note warning the British embassy to cease "open interference" in Iran's affairs or suffer consequences. The British in a huffy reply refused to receive Iran's note; the Iranians in turn refused to receive the British message refusing the Iranian note. Upshot: Premier Mossadegh ordered Great Britain to shut her nine Iranian consulates within nine days...
...bamboo shoot which bends before the prevailing wind. To Westerners obsessed with slum clearance, sanitation and overall reform, it sounded like simple sloth. Faced with cultural mysteries, Westerners concocted superficial myths. The big myth about the Chinese: that they don't know how to "get things done." Upshot of such reasoning: Chiang Kai-shek's government was scuttled while otherwise hardheaded Westerners (e.g., "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell) sang the praises of Mao Tse-tung's "efficient" Communists...
Flying Windmill. The upshot of the Black investigation was the Air Mail Act of 1934, which divorced aircraft builders from airlines. Boeing and United Airlines went their separate ways while Rentschler held Pratt & Whitney, Vought-Sikorsky and Hamilton Standard together in truncated United Aircraft. Trouble of a different sort now struck Pratt & Whitney. By 1937 it had lost the lead it once had over Wright Aeronautical, largely because it spread its engineering talents trying to develop nine different engines, while Wright concentrated on its famed Cyclone, grabbed much of the transport and military market...