Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settle that kind of technical debate. They had a right to expect that the JCS would have settled the fight among themselves and come up with carefully integrated plans. It was apparent that real unification had not yet taken place in the services. If it had, it would have meant "an enormous opportunity for savings," said the report, which, in a restrained fashion, recommended that Secretary of Defense James Forrestal should knock some heads together...
...level-the trading deficit with the U.S. will be running at about $1 billion a year. Without Marshall Plan aid, he warned, Britain's dollars and expendable gold reserve will be exhausted by midsummer. Then Britain will "be driven back upon a policy of immediate self-preservation." Cripps meant that, without further U.S. aid, Britain would have to cut off U.S. food, raw material and machinery imports, fall back on barter pacts with other countries...
...natural level proved to be several steps lower: 3% bonds of 1966 (callable in 1961), for which the Bank had been paying 104½ to yield 2.60% steadied at 102 for a yield of 2.82%. Since government bonds are the backbone of much of the banks' credit, this meant that the price of money had gone up about one-fourth of 1%. In the long run, dearer money tightens credit and cheapens goods. But it would still be a long time before the Bank of Canada's tinkering with the price of bonds affected the price of cabbage...
...closing one loophole after another. New ways are constantly being found to circumvent the intent of the Constitutional guarantees of equality. For many years the Supreme Court, itself, was one of the chief sinners in this respect. It decided on somewhat dubious grounds that the 14th Amendment was meant to protect only those rights that stem from national citizenship, and that most basic civil rights are contingent upon state citizenship. The Court was disposed not to protect civil rights unless they were infringed upon by an official act of a state government--a rare occurrence...
...Plan meant that the export boom was not going to collapse; foreign nations were going to get the cash to keep the boom going. The U.S. hoped that with the European Recovery Program other nations would get on their feet again, and by their own production close the gap in foreign trade. Result: those in the U.S. who had patiently held off their buying, waiting for the drop in exports to ease the pressure on prices, had to jump back into the market...