Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just what this broad promise meant became apparent last week as PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes offered 21 municipalities a total of $9,527,995 to build plants of their own though they are already served by private utilities.* To receive these beneficences, the 21 municipalities, said Mr. Ickes. must "make 'reasonable efforts in good faith' to purchase the facilities with which the applicants would be in competition. . . ." Asked who would be the judge of such efforts, Public Works Administrator Ickes declared: "I don't know anyone better qualified to judge what is fair and reasonable than...
...members stuck at having a WPA artist fill a space meant for Whistler or Sargent. "If any member," said Mr. Stokes, "thinks that Edward Laning is a long-haired Bolshevik, he should get a look at him." Edward Laning is neat, solemn; at 32 he looks less like a Bolshevik than a college senior. The sketches he submitted for four panels on The History of Bookmaking (Mr. Stokes suggested the subject), impressed the board last week and finally succeeded in bringing it around completely...
Since country weeklies are distinctive for their local flavor, great chains and publishing titans in this field are rare. However, their widening interests have meant greater dependence on centralized services. For editorial matter outside of local topics, some of them use the Western Newspaper Union, world's largest and oldest publishing syndicate. With 34 branch plants in principal U. S. cities, W. N. U. sells type, printing machinery, paper and 400 features to 10,732 daily and weekly newspapers. For national advertising, some 5,000 country papers are represented by the American Press Association, which is no association...
...years that followed he developed in his Graphic column such Winchellese as "the stem" (Broadway), "gigglewater" (liquor), "flicker" and "moom pitcher," which meant the same thing. One year after Winchell left the Vaudeville News for the Graphic, the News folded. He was on the Graphic until 1929, and three years after he left it for the Mirror, the Graphic folded too. By that time it was estimated that 200,000 New Yorkers would follow Winchell to any paper to which he might...
...shares, the industrial averages went through the previous rally peak of 121 to 121.34. To Dow Theorists, of whom there are an immense number (TIME, June 20), this was enormously significant-if the rail averages confirmed the industrials by breaking through their previous high of 23.5, it meant a decisive change of trend. Two days later, rails, highballing after industrials, went to 24.9. To Robert Rhea, leading exponent of the Dew Theory, this was "more bullish than anything seen in the averages for more than two years." But Robert Rhea warned that though this meant that the secondary trend (wave...