Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like everyone else, Congress' Joint Committee on the Economic Report wanted to know what was happening to the U.S. economy. Did rising unemployment and falling commodity prices mean a recession? Or would it be just a temporary letdown? Last week the committee called in economists, unionists, farm leaders and businessmen to find out. Among them was Economist A.D.H. Kaplan of the Brookings Institution, who had an economic explanation that everyone could understand...
...whom the U.S. State Department had blown hot & cold for a week, Halvard Lange, Norway's Foreign Minister, headed home for Oslo remarkably unruffled. Lange had been sent to the U.S. by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) to find out just what it would mean to Norway-put & take-to join in the proposed North Atlantic defense pact...
Other villagers said the same thing-and seemed to mean it. There was certainly a frankness when I asked if Japan were becoming more democratic...
...What do you mean by 'democracy,' " I asked. The question brought a long pause-as it usually does. Then the mayor said hesitantly, "Democracy is the people venturing to express themselves openly...
Their arrival on top would mean few changes down below. They had already been made. Said Kauffmann: "During the war, I got an uncomfortable feeling that there was nobody really underneath me until you got to the copy boys." After the war, Heir-Apparent Kauffmann started replacing the oldtimers with younger, more vigorous department heads. By last week, they were a smooth team. With a clinking cash register (last year the Star was seventh in the U.S. in ad volume), President Kauffmann had no intention of interfering with able Editor Benjamin M. McKelway, 53, who was re-elected last week...