Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show that he meant every word about the 40-hour week M. Daladier sent Senegalese troops to work as longshoremen on the docks at Marseille. Glistening with sweat, the Senegalese-sharpshooters all-carried backbreaking loads of cabbages, asparagus, oranges, lemons, which for the past month Marseille longshoremen, having worked their 40 hours, have refused to move at night or on Sundays...
...campaign brochure of the National Revolutionary Party. No one took it seriously until President Cárdenas had been several months in office. In Mexico City, politicians were as amazed as their prototypes in Washington when they first realized that Lázaro Cárdenas, like Franklin Roosevelt, meant to fulfill his radical campaign pledges. The hitherto haphazard land division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into ejidols (collective farms), financed by the State's especially created National Bank for Ejidol Credit. Scarcity of water...
...romance with the composer Felix is getting along gayly when Mickey Borden (John Garfield) hitchhikes out from the city to orchestrate a piece of Felix's music. Ann has never met Mickey's type, dark, rude, bitter as stale tea. On the day she is meant to marry Felix she marries Mickey-a mistake, as cinemaddicts will spot immediately, for Felix is considerably more clean-cut. It takes a year's time and a melodramatic suicide to clear up the situation...
Within a 300-mile radius of the new bridge, a comfortable day's drive, live 35,000,000 people, a fourth of the U. S. population, a third of Canada's. To many of these the link meant an international short cut to a neighbor's dooryard; to others, weekends in the bass and muskellunge waters, easier access to a prime vacation land. But to a "whimsical few the route had still another charm. Nearer the U. S. than ever were Ontario's Dionne quintuplets...
...busy Hamilton, island capital and chief tourist port, Competitor Furness and Canadian National Railways occupy all four berths, which meant that Eastern would have had to anchor in the harbor and ferry its passengers ashore. Best alternative was to use the harbor at sleepy St. George, where the piers are owned by the St. George Corporation. Hitch there was that there was only one hotel, the St. George, which is so regularly patronized that it never needs to advertise. Obvious solution lay in the ship-hotel idea, used successfully for years by cruise ships in Bermuda, but not by regularly...