Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day, Dick and Ginger were told that they were going to be taken out of the camp for investigation. This usually meant torture, and Bill Hutton, who by then had time to understand what had happened, went to the Japanese Lieut. Honda, and took Dick Ekin's place...
Shortly after the November election, the Association advised its members to "confer" with Senators and Representatives before those gentlemen headed for Washington. The lobby meant, of course, for the heat to be applied in the home districts, so that the selling job in the Capital would be easier...
...Amusement Enterprises, Inc. (Comedian Benny's corporate entity), the Bureau of Internal Revenue ruling meant that the $1,356,000 due Benny from CBS as 60% stockholder was subject to a whopping $1,030,000 in personal income taxes. Until he got the dire word, professional skinflint Benny had hoped (on advice of counsel) that he would have to pay only $300,000 in capital-gains taxes...
Hogan & Hagen. The 128 men who would be on the firing line against him this week (including his close rivals, Texans Lloyd Mangrum and Jimmy Demaret) knew what he meant. Hogan is one of the reasons why they can't relax. None of them clamors to be in his threesome. Says one frank Chicago pro: "It's no fun to play with Hogan. He's so good and so mechanically perfect that he seems inhuman. You get kind of uneasy and start to flub your shots." Others had other reasons, among them the big, distracting gallery that...
...stocks, Dow-Jones industrial averages went from 180.28 to 191.06, and the rail averages went from 57.97 to 62.27. Both of them "broke through" their previous high marks, established in 1947. For the large number of investors who swear by the Dow Theory, the "breakthrough" meant that the bear market was finally over, the bull market had arrived...