Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone knew, "civil rights" meant, largely, "Negro rights." The platform makers, headed by Pennsylvania's Senator Francis Myers, had hit, upon what they thought was the perfect compromise. They parroted the 1944 platform, affirmed the right of racial minorities "to live ... to work ... to vote." As for federal guarantee of those rights, they called upon Congress "to exert its full authority to the limit of its constitutional powers...
...hope of hearing something to cheer about, he cried: "Senator Barkley and I will win this election and make these Republicans like it, don't you forget that." The delegates rose to a man; it was the first time they had heard anybody say "win" as if he meant...
...almost by default. Like an aggressive general, he had seized the offensive at a time and place of his own choosing. If anyone had thought that the President would fight a hopeless delaying action against the Dewey panzers, it was now plain as a tank track that Harry Truman meant to go down fighting...
...industry was feeling no pain: with cementmakers now selling f.o.b. at their mills, the savings on freight absorption meant increased earnings. Consumers were in a different boat: with airfreight costs now added to their bills, buyers suddenly found the delivered price of cement boosted as much as 25%, depending on the distance from producer to purchaser...
...much as $1.10 a ton. A few hours after the rail-wage fight was settled (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Interstate Commerce Commission gave 61 Eastern railroads permission to boost passenger fares an average of 17% (a total of about $61,000,000 a year). By passengers' standards, it meant that coach travel was now as expensive (3? a mile) as Pullman travel was before...