Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grime meant money. Men's ingenuity knew no limits, and the supply of fresh laborers from the villages of Europe was seemingly as inexhaustible as the great coal fields under the Alleghenies. Pittsburgh grew and kept on growing...
Late in July, ailing Sir Stafford Cripps went to Switzerland for medical treatment. In a hilltop sanatorium near Zurich he embarked on the "ordered life" prescribed by his physician: that meant no dispatches from London...
...corn crop meant that a big pig crop was a certainty. Last week top hog prices dropped $1.25 per hundredweight in Chicago, to only $2 above the $18.50 level at which the Government must start supporting hogs and thus add another expense to the support program...
...until permanent rates are set, all transatlantic fares-both ways-will be at the $350 rate, thus setting a new rate in London of ?125. But from London eastward to Cairo, New Delhi, etc., fares will remain unchanged at their old rate in pounds, francs, etc. That meant that U.S. airlines will have to take as much as a 30% cut in dollar fares to compete. On the sea lanes, Britain's luxury liners, a prime source of dollar revenue, promptly raised their pound fares at least 30% to keep their dollar intake the same...
...homes were transported intact away from the 60 foot strip that the bridge's approaches carve through Chelsea and Charlestown. In many respects the engineering was equally as remarkable as in the construction of the John Hancock building. And for all the danger that operating at such heights meant, only one worker was killed during the entire...