Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Substantial Change. What that meant was becoming increasingly clear. Even Arthur Vandenberg was privately convinced that the Administration's bill could and would have to stand substantial change. He had already publicly tipped his hand by agreeing with a suggestion of World Bank President John J. McCloy. The proposal: that ERP include a formula for "progressive credits"-i.e., make the amount of aid extended dependent on the rate of the economic recovery...
...taxes. Minnesota's dogged Harold Knutson was determined to get fast action on his bill to save taxpayers an estimated $5.6 billion. As chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, Republican Knutson meant to give short shrift to an Administration bill calling for 1) a flat $40 across-the-board cut in income taxes, and 2) a revenue-balancing reinstatement of the wartime tax on excess corporate profits. Even among Democrats, the Administration bill found few enthusiasts. North Carolina's tough old "Muley" Doughton, ranking Democrat on the Knutson committee, refused to introduce it. To get this futile...
Charles Chaplin felt the pinch of inflation. A Los Angeles court took notice of the cost-of-living increase, ordered him to pay an extra $25 a week for the support of Carol Ann, his four-year-old daughter by ex-protégée Joan Berry. That meant $100 every week, instead...
...People are living and thinking in standardized fashion. Military censors observed during the war that all American soldiers wrote the same letters. . . . The effect of many well-meant reforms in education during the first half of the century has been to magnify the importance of social welfare and to minimize that of the individual...
...snap meant pepped-up picture stories, quiz pages, for-men-only articles, and reprints of short stories, but no ads-at least, in the February issue. Ingersoll had thrown out the cheap-looking ads that had cluttered up Salute's pages, so that he could court more imposing accounts...