Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the announcement, the whole labor picture changed. G.M. promptly signed with 3,000 rubber workers in Dayton at the magical new 15? figure. At the least, it meant that Walter Reuther would be hard put to it to avoid accepting about the same terms at G.M., at Chrysler, and at Ford. At most it meant that the U.S. could look forward to a season of real labor peace...
...Marshall, the Molotov plan meant such Russian control of the Austrian economy that Austria would become "a puppet." U.S. estimates showed that Russia would thereby control 100% of Austria's Danube navigation, 70% of her crude oil industry, 99% of her hard coal industry...
...conference drew to a weary close, one agreement was reached that lighted up the new situation: Secretary Marshall and Foreign Ministers Bevin and Bidault concluded an agreement giving France coal from British and U.S. occupation zones of Germany. This was further evidence that the U.S. really meant to help build and guarantee a stable Europe (see below). Such moves as the French coal pact would speak more persuasively to the Russians than all the voices in all the conference rooms...
After two and one-half hours of debate last night, the members of the Harvard Liberal Union failed to reach a two-third majority which would have meant affiliation with the new national group, Students for Democratic Action, but passed a majority resolution backing SDA and affirming a desire to join in the near future...
...meant plenty to many a middle-aged Vallee fan who had crammed into Chicago's Copacabana to hear him sing. Rudy's idea of up-to-date stuff was stale master-of-ceremonies patter and a try at ventriloquism. His routine was as wooden as his dummies (Ezry, Sally Ann and Linoleum). Only when he sang The Stein Song and As Time Goes By in his old nasal way did the crowd stop sitting on its hands...