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...question of sugar controls started another row among Senators already smarting under thousands of whiplash letters from U.S. housewives. Upshot: the Senate voted to end all sugar controls...
...T.W.A. Frye even lined it up (for example, a $100,000,000 credit line at Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co.). But Hughes would have none of it. He was not entirely sold on round-the-world expansion and he was leary of losing control of T.W.A. The upshot was that T.W.A. was short of cash when the pilots' strike and grounding of the Connies threw T.W.A. deeply into...
...stunned Government finally asked Gandhi for terms. The upshot was a 6¼%, not a 25%, increase in taxes. Patel emerged from Bardoli with a new and exalted status. He received the unofficial title of "Sardar," meaning captain or leader, which he has carried ever since. (Lawyer K. F. Narriman was the first to call Patel "Sardar"; years later he and Patel quarreled and the Sardar forced Narriman out of Bombay politics...
...Upshot. In Danville, Ill., a farmer's wife was cleaning out her husband's pockets when a shotgun shell fell out, dropped on a heater, shot her in the hand...
...unpermissible and unlawful way people have become knowing about Christ, for the only permissible way is to be believing. People have mutually confirmed one another in the notion that by the aid of the upshot of Christ's life and the 1,800 years (the consequences) they have become acquainted with the answer to the problem. By degrees, as this came to be accounted wisdom, all pith and vigor was distilled out of Christianity, the tension of the paradox was relaxed, one became a Christian without noticing it. ... What one especially praises in Christ is precisely what one would...