Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite curious to note how relatively immortal some of "The Stories They Tell" [TIME, Nov. 15 et seq.] really can be. And how sometimes they do not improve with time (no pun meant) . . . [Here is] a much more recent story...
...hard time breaking even. The Government pays the White House staff and servants, but does not feed them. Bess Truman tried cutting the staff (which runs between 25 and 30), gave up because the housework didn't get done. Feeding the help, plus the family and friends, meant that Truman must pay for about 2,000 meals a month. In the Roosevelt era the monthly food bill sometimes soared to $7,000; Bess Truman has cut it to about $2,000. On quiet nights with the family, Harry Truman often gets leftovers...
Whatever Connally meant, his committee had a few questions they wanted to talk over with the man Harry Truman had picked for his Secretary of State. That a Senate committee should, for the first time in history, hold an open hearing on a new Secretary of State was an expression of some doubt about Dean Acheson-but it was a doubt that was never clearly defined, nor forcefully defended. Obviously, in an open hearing, Acheson could not talk about top-level policy. But the Senate committee did want to hear about the international affairs of Acheson's affluent Washington...
...added stations and bigger audiences meant that TV networks might this year cut their skyrocketing losses. Yet none of the networks was entirely happy. Because there are only two coaxial cables, their use must be divided among NBC (which has more sponsored TV shows than any of the others), CBS, ABC and Du Mont...
...Hint & the Jolt. The show was meant as a hint of what might happen if artists and Church were to cooperate once again, as they had in the greatest periods of Western art. It was an important and provocative try. But the ten statues commissioned by the society, while more varied than the Barclay Street product, were not always an improvement...