Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians continued intransigent, the U.S. had another possible course. It could use its meager armored forces (see cut) to blast a land route to Berlin. But that would mean that the U.S. would abandon its present morally unassailable position. As matters stood, the air lift over the blockade could go on until the Russians stopped it-but only...
...about as strong as diplomatic notes can be. Said the U.S. note: "The U.S. Government categorically asserts that it is in occupation of its sector in Berlin with free access thereto as a matter of established right ... It will not be induced by threats, pressures or other actions to abandon these rights . . . The U.S. Government is therefore obliged to insist that . . . traffic between the Western zones and Berlin be fully restored. There can be no question of delay...
Universal Atlas is a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, so some steelmen thought that the parent might soon give the cue to abandon basing points in steel and many another industry. But short of more specific orders from FTC, the decision would come hard. To many industrialists it seemed that dropping the basing-points system-and using the alternative of discounts to meet competition-could cause as much trouble as holding on to them. The dilemma had been neatly, if inadvertently, pointed up by the Supreme Court itself...
...West could abandon Berlin. If so, it would surrender the most critical outpost in Europe, and the Russians would organize another satellite state. Even more important, hesitant millions of Europeans would be treated to the spectacle of the great Western powers backing down in the face of naked Soviet force. Austrians, Italians, Turks, and Swedes-among others -would draw their reluctant conclusions...
...majority opinion, would in no way violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. "Size has significance ... in an appraisal of alleged violations," he conceded, "but the steel industry .is also of impressive size, and the welcome westward extension of that industry requires that the existing companies go into production there, or abandon that market to other organizations...