Word: meaningly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Secretary of State George Marshall pointed out the hard facts. Such a revision, he declared, could only mean the disintegration of U.N. The Soviet bloc, the Arab states, perhaps the Far Eastern bloc would walk out, leaving the world divided into three or four armed camps. Many friendly nations, with whom the U.S. has a strong working alliance in the U.N., would jump for a neutral corner. Said U.N. Delegate Warren Austin: "The only possible bridge between the East & West would collapse; and yet, the problem of bridging the gap between the East & West is precisely the crucial problem...
Quick rescheduling, approved last night by the H.A.A., will mean that the net squad will face its two toughest opponents--Yale and Princeton--in successive days, since the windup match with the Tigers Saturday remains unaffected...
...workers of Italy's Fiat auto plants point trembling fingers at the Renault and Citroën production in France. Or the French masons and building unions become indignant at the prospect of cheaper Italian labor. These are human and understandable fears, which, spelled in human terms, mean loss of jobs and painful reorientation or conversion...
...formation of such a defensive group of free states would not be a counsel of despair but a message of hope. It would not mean that we regarded a third world war as inevitable, but that ... to prevent such a war [we] would organize so as to confront the forces of Communist expansionism with an overwhelming preponderance of moral, economic and military force ... so used that the free nations cannot be defeated one by one. No measure less than this will...
What the FTC wanted, in effect, was an f.o.b. system such as automakers use, with consumers paying the cost of a product, plus the actual freight to the point of delivery. For many a consumer close to a plant, this would mean a price cut. Those far away might find prices boosted, at least as long as materials were scarce...