Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concessions have been operated as a student enterprise for the benefit of students. To set aside large amounts from each year's earnings so that more elaborate stands could be erected and new equipment bought would have meant depriving needy students of a large share of their potential wages. For that reason expenditures for construction and equipment have been kept at a minimum. Under this plan the stands could hardly be made attractive or expensive equipment purchased. But students earnings have been correspondingly greater...
...concrete evidence that Dr. Tugwell meant what he said, his critics point to the start which has been made in regimenting agriculture under AAA, to the strict codes which have been forced on agricultural industries, and to the Tugwell bill to make the Pure Food & Drug Act much more drastic and comprehensive, apply it to advertising as well as labeling. To prove that the present Food & Drug Act is already drastic enough to penalize honest men for mistakes. Dr. Tugwell's opponents unearthed a list of judgments obtained under that act and published by the Department of Agriculture last...
...went on to explain what he meant by planning-instead of giving direct cash relief to unemployed and stranded populations, set them up in occupations and surroundings where they can support themselves. "The Government is rich enough to accomplish this. We need to make these people self-sustaining. We are not going to take them by force or against their wills out of one community and transplant them to another. By using grey matter-Brain Trust or otherwise-we are going to make these experiments so attractive and successful that more people will apply than can be handled...
...King, the Princes, the Prime Minister and the Legislators all knew what that meant, for Mussolini's "transformations" involve the substitution of an appointed National Council of Corporations for the Parliament. The 29th Parliament may well be Italy's last...
...course, was not money out of its big pocket, but eventually those plants and mines must be replaced. Net result was a $6,989,000 loss for the first quarter against a $16,730,000 loss for the same period last year when Steel's operations really meant money out of pocket. Noteworthy was an increase in efficiency. Steel shipped 18% less tonnage in the first quarter than in the previous quarter, yet its operating profit was up a flat...