Word: effective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authorized a fare increase of over 12 per cent for the New Haven Railroad yesterday, but students planning to take a train to the Yale game will not be affected. The New Haven road will not put the fare rise into effect until late next week...
...Scenic Effect. In Philadelphia, the Tilles Restaurant removed their suggestion box after two days when a quick checkup showed that 96% of the male customers wanted nothing added except prettier waitresses...
...years of a Communist campaign to wiggle into and capture his C.I.O. The overwhelmingly right-wing delegates voted down the line with Murray. They were mostly "pie card" unionists (men & women on union payrolls), not labor's rank & file. They were well disciplined. With a loud aye, in effect they surrendered their old constitutional authority as a convention and gave Murray and his executive board virtually absolute power over 39 C.I.O. unions-the power to 1) bar Communists from sitting on the executive board, 2) expel any C.I.O. union from the parent body without a convention vote...
...Composer Blitzstein's version of the Alabama Hubbards is fundamentally comic. Regina much less suggests a social critic excoriating an emerging class of plunderers than a first-rate showman exhibiting a prize assortment of hellions. Blitzstein's Hubbards cavort the whole time they conspire, and the general effect is of exuberance rather than tension...
While a higher gold price would probably have little effect on domestic prices, some thought that there was still a chance that it might give the U.S. another slight whiff of inflation. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, recently resigned member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, thought that "any tinkering with the dollar at this moment of delicate domestic and international adjustment would be one of the surest roads to demoralization and possible disaster...