Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reduction of costs of manufacture does not mean more purchasing power and more goods consumed. It means just the opposite. ... If you increase buying power, prices will go up but more goods will be bought. . . . Higher wages for workers, more income for farmers means more goods produced, more and better food eaten, fewer unemployed and lower taxes...
According to Andrews the present waxing of sunspots should come to an end in 1939. What this may mean he will not predict but cryptically leaves it to the imagination of the reader...
Last week Illinois Democrats and Republicans stormed the polls in unprecedented numbers for the Statewide primaries to pick candidates for Governor. Among Democrats, a vote for Governor Henry Horner's renomination might mean: 1) approval of that official's honest, mildly progressive administration; 2) disapproval of Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and his ruthless Cook County political machine. A vote for Candidate Herman Niels Bundesen might mean: 1) approval of Mayor Kelly and party patronage; 2) attachment to Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune, which threw its arch-Republican influence behind Boss Kelly...
...Mussolini was bluffing. Seven months of diplomatic failures had brought Stanley Baldwin to the realization that Benito Mussolini was not bluffing. He sympathized wholeheartedly with young Mr. Eden's idealistic point of view. Every wise Briton was aware that Italian conquest of Ethiopia, now at hand, might easily mean the end of British domination in the Mediterranean and the beginning of a serious rebellion in Egypt. But for the time being there was nothing to do about...
Odds were increasing that the French elections would swing to the Left, which would probably mean that he, Joseph Paul-Boncour, would go back as French Foreign Minister. He personally was entirely in favor of an oil ban on Italy, or anything else that his good friend Eden would suggest, but his constituents were...