Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...calling names and waving a big feather duster," Professor Wernette cited business indices in his appeal for defense and prosperity. In his view, Roosevelt is the greatest "bottleneck" of all in the defense program because of his desire to investigate each item of the program before it goes into effect...
Because his appointment as a reservist captain in the Army Specialists Reserve had kicked up such a fuss that it might have "an injurious effect on the selective service program," Elliott Roosevelt last week tried to resign his commission, so that he could go home to Fort Worth to register for the draft. On the grounds that his services were needed and that poor eyesight would disqualify him for fighting or flying, Brigadier General Oliver P. Echols, his commanding officer at Wright Field, refused his resignation...
...sore point in Japanese-U. S. relations is the scrap-iron trade. But this time the scrap issue was dead. Burying it were a flock of Japanese, Greek and miscellaneous tramp steamers feverishly filling up with their last loads of U. S. scrap before the embargo took effect Oct. 16. At Jacksonville (Fla.). not ordinarily a big scrap port, two Greek tramps loaded about $102,000 of scrap while the town went wild, the city fathers passed an ordinance against such trade...
...diminish the supply of consumer goods. The most significant address had little concern with the war. It was a "preview" of 1940's census results (TIME, Sept. 30) by Vergil D. Reed, assistant director and bright idea man of the Census Bureau. He i) smartly summed up the effect of population shifts on distribution, 2) described the trends in retail sales (mostly up), 3) brought out facts from the first complete nose count of U. S. time-sales companies. Sample Census Bureau findings...
...Decline of the West is a philosophy of history. Spengler boots out the Ancient-Medieval-Modern pattern of schoolbooks, the "Progress" pattern of reformers and optimists, the cause-&-effect patterns of rationalists. He sees each culture-Classical, Chinese, Arabian, etc.-as an organic entity which is born, flourishes, wanes, dies, like plants and animals. As organisms, cultures have a uniform morphology, except where accident intrudes (as in the ruin of Aztec culture by a band of adventurers). Lifetime of a culture is about 1,500 years. Western culture of 1940 is at about the same stage of its life cycle...