Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walkout meant that two of the four major U.S. airlines were at a standstill. Eastern Air Lines, largest operator on north-south air routes, has been strikebound since the flight engineers' union walked out Nov. 24 in a disagreement over jet crew makeup. With airline flights 60% of normal, and the first of the holiday traffic on the move, thousands of travelers last week milled around terminals, reached destinations by circuitous routes and even by railroads and buses. The irony of it all: just when U.S. commercial aviation was entering a brand-new era, it was being assailed...
...Auto Workers agreed to speed up the line. But in its belt tightening this year, Chrysler went in heavily for time studies, decided that the five-minute relief period each hour-which exists nowhere else in the industry-was no longer necessary and would have to go, since it meant shutting the line down every hour. The union then eliminated the speedup, so that Chrysler gained no extra production. But two weeks ago the 400 Dodge body workers decided they wanted the relief period even without the speedup, walked out, later added a demand for more manpower on the same...
...Association charges that most of the Arboretum's funds were meant for a herbarium and library that would be "integrated with" and "in the same place" as the collection of living trees and shrubs--in Jamaica Plain. "We are especially disturbed over the Corporation's refusal to let the courts decide the issue," Hemenway stated yesterday...
...Crime and Punishment. As he wound up his third U.S. tour last week on the West Coast, nobody thought to ask him whether he was stoking his emotional fires on Donne or Dostoevsky or Dashiell Hammett. What mattered was that he was in top vocal form, and that meant that he was giving his audiences the most moving performances of German lieder to be heard in the world today...
...retired and lived on workmen's compensation. But the diagnosis was deceptive. The conductor happened to be one of an unknown number of Americans who so fear heart trouble that they feel the symptoms without ever having the disease. In fact, the conductor's "illness" meant so much to him that he lived for nothing else. When doctors later could find no heart disease and cut off his compensation, the patient died suddenly-apparently a suicide...