Word: upshot
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...Upshot was a machine with a grinding wheel that pushes beet-seed clusters against a "shearing bar." This breaks up the cluster at its natural cell divisions. The cracked-off single seeds, when planted, need no thinning...
...sold out his rubber and shoe interests and bought control of McCormick's, Ltd., a candy and biscuit maker of London, Ont. Within three years he was fighting British-controlled George Weston, Ltd. for the Canadian market. Upshot: Weston bought McCormick's, Ltd. but kept Cummings...
...Because "Frisco" is a contraction abhorrent to all San Franciscans, roly-poly Mayor Angelo Rossi sped to Hollywood to take issue with 20th Century-Fox, about to release a picture called Hello, Frisco, Hello. Upshot: the mayor got a hundred feet of prelude film in which to express his disapproval, and when the picture opens in San Francisco this week, the title will be Hello, San Francisco, Hello...
...their gesture towards the furthering of international friendship with our British allies, the WAVES entertained a group of British naval officers at tea on Sunday at Briggs Hall. The talk was animated, the tea came up to highest American standards, at least, and the upshot was that the Britishers stayed on to dinner...
Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians took a laborer's view of the case. One of those fired was Viola Player Calman Fleisig, of the orchestra's union committee. Said Fleisig: "Mainly a labor question." Upshot at week's end: an impasse on negotiation of contracts for the entire orchestra for next year...