Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wailed, "I'm slowly starving to death"-but he was making $45 a week. One shopkeeper summed it up: "Business is only fair, but it could be a lot worse." And out on Falihee Road, a gear-cutting company was building a new $4,000,000 plant. That meant 400 new jobs, when it was completed...
Bill Boyle is a stubborn believer in party regularity. Said he: "I want people in the Government who will back President Truman down the line." Translated this meant: no waverers, no Wallaceites, no Dixiecrats need apply...
...week International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and Farnsworth officials helped kick it farther down the ladder. I.T. & T. had agreed to buy Farnsworth through an exchange of stock, one share of I.T. & T. for twelve of Farnsworth. Since I.T. & T. was selling for $9.25 and Farnsworth for $2.87, the deal meant that Farnsworth's trade-in value was only about 77? a share. That touched off a selling wave...
...that the "long route" meant over the fence. "It was almost impossible to hit a ball out of the park in those days," Stuffy muses. "Everything favored the pitchers. The ball was deader than it is today, and the pitchers all chewed tobacco, so that by the eighth or ninth inning the ball was like a chunk of coal...
...number of directives that severely cut into her rehabilitation program. Dwyer complained that new inmates shouldn't be told they are "students" when they enter. That was falsifying their legal status, he said. According to the McDowell Dwyer concept, inmates were prisoners, and must be treated accordingly. That meant no special treatment of special cases (which to Dwyer looked like favoritism) and no liberal graduation of inmates back into society (which looked like dangerous laxity regarding "hardened criminals"). Indenturing, movies, trips--all were forms of therapy which shocked the traditionalists. Several outstanding penologists and social workers who testified this month...