Word: means
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly this meant trying to revive the corpse of the Potsdam agreement. U.S. Secretary of State Acheson called it "turning the clock back." French Foreign Minister Schuman said it would mean "returning to the point where our paths diverged . . . whereas what we are trying to do is find a point where our paths can converge again." Vishinsky retorted: "Until the peace treaty, Allied control of Germany must be as inevitable as the sun. You cannot prevent the sun from rising." Countered Schuman: "No, but you cannot return to the dawn once the sun has risen...
...Good Life seems to mean marriage, about three children, a comfortable home, one or maybe two cars ("a little knockabout for the wife"), and later, perhaps, a summer cottage. The senior's dream of the perfect salary: about $10,000 a year...
...Committee chairman, sent Rickenbacker's "phenomenal and challenging" proposal to CAB, whose Chairman Joseph J. O'Connell Jr. does not impress quite so easily. He accused Rickenbacker, in effect, of staging a grandstand play. Putting Rickenbacker's newest offer into practice, said O'Connell, would mean amending the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act to "create an absolute monopoly of north-south air transportation . . . east of the Mississippi." But Diagnostician Rickenbacker had, at any rate, called attention once more to the fact that since the war he has held the domestic monopoly on the secret of making steady...
What do you mean, speaking to that New Haven Youth Movement, the agent asked. Who invited...
...market gave the bears some mild encouragement; the Dow-Jones industrial average closed last week at 173.49. off 1.71 points. Did the big rise in "shorts" mean that the market was likely to keep on going down? Paradoxically, many Wall Streeters thought it meant just the opposite. They argued that any rise would scare the bears into "covering" (i.e., buy in the stocks they sold short), thus give the market an added boost. On the other hand, if the market dropped further, the bears would also buy so they could take their profits, thus check the drop...