Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a speech in Madison Square Garden calling for appeasement of Stalin. Wallace swore that he had personally shown the speech to Truman beforehand, but nobody ever figured out whether the President changed his mind after the speech was delivered, or whether he didn't realize what it meant in the first place. The White House announced that Harry Truman did not intend to fire Matthews as he had Wallace...
...adviser, management made another offer. To the fact-finders' offer, they added a 5?-an-hour boost for all hands and an escalator clause guaranteeing a 1? wage boost with every one-point rise in the cost of living. Still Kennedy and Hughes said no. To show they meant business, they ordered a token strike in three terminals and two feeder railroads. Last week, apparently in a more amenable mood, they promised Steelman that they would not extend the token strikes. But 45 minutes later, they gave the signal for a nationwide railroad strike to begin this week...
...captain noticed that Lou Sebille's plane was trailing smoke. He called Lou on the radio three times before he got an answer. Then Lou said simply: "I'm hit." The captain thought Lou was just talking about his plane; later, he realized that Lou had meant that he himself had been wounded, probably mortally. The captain suggested that Lou try to make it back to a U.S. emergency landing strip a few miles away...
...year's crop is expected to be 37% smaller than last year's, and the smallest on record. On top of that, the armed services, which bought up some 30% of the brooms manufactured in World War II, were back in the market again. For housewives this meant about 40% fewer corn brooms next year and 10-to-30% higher prices...
...Umberto recognizes that his reluctant silence meant consent, and feels the final crushing weight of his own responsibility. By then it is too late even to make his peace with the Allied conquerors. Cynical connivers higher up in the party suddenly emerge as democrats, but small-fry Fascist Spadaro loses the little job that he once joined the party to save...