Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slanderous articles regarding the U.S.S.R. and its statesmen." The Russian Government, he said disingenuously, "cannot bear the responsibility for this or that article, and so much the more, cannot accept the protest you have made." Translated from the Russian, that could mean only one thing: Russia's rulers meant this one for the record...
This sounded like a slightly more politic parroting of Senator Bob Taft. Did the President, like Taft, mean "eat less"? asked one reporter. No, said the President firmly, he meant to waste less. One restaurant owner had informed him that one slice of bread less per person would solve the wheat shortage. If people would save the bread they now throw away, he said, 70 million bushels of wheat could be saved without depriving anyone...
...need. A report of his Cabinet Food Committee spelled out the story in convincing detail: because of poor crops abroad, because of a sharp drop in U.S. corn production, Europe now faced a food shortage of 4.5 million tons in grain alone. If scarcity of U.S. corn meant that farmers would turn to wheat to feed their hogs and cattle, the gap would increase by another two million tons. The committee counted on other exporting nations to boost their quotas, on hungry Europeans to tighten up on their own food-collection systems...
...Parapets. Against the background of this career, the warning that Andrei Vishinsky gave to the West last week was worth pondering. It meant that Vishinsky's masters, whose people and land put Soviet Russia astride half the world, had no more intention than they had ever had of cooperating with the West, save in brief tactical moments. Did his outburst mean that the fanatics of the Kremlin were condemning not only the peaceful part of the world, but the patient Russian people, exhausted by years of dictatorship and permanent economic depression, to World War III? Only the Kremlin knew...
...exceptional ability" to sit on its board of directors. Starting salary: $25,000 a year. All anyone had to do to land the job was get the company 15,000 Ibs. a month of four different kinds of rayon yarn. Only the textile industry knew what that condition meant: an extreme improbability. By last week, rayon yarn was so scarce that the scramble for it made the 1946 nylon search look like an Easter-egg hunt...