Word: applecarts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must do these things without upsetting the postwar applecart. For example, while consumers' durable goods are now dangerously scarce, their wartime production raises immediate basic questions of trademarks and competitive models.* Last week the leading prewar producers of irons -now leading producers of war goods-took a haughty view of reconverting to limited production. Yet they were also a little nervous about letting any small fry get a possible postwar advantage...
...ones (cash and demand deposits)* He believes that the average U.S. citizen is going to want to hang on to a lot of his wartime savings, at least until he can find real value to spend them on. His real fear is that industry will unwittingly upset the applecart. His reasons...
...when British industry responds to Eric Johnston's invitation to confer with U.S. businessmen, either or both of those factors might upset his competitive applecart...
...this same constitution which finally upset the Arias applecart. A handsome man of 40 who dresses like a fashion plate, Dr. Arias fancies himself a lady-killer. Last month, when he and his good friend Anita de la Vega spent a pleasant week in Costa Rica settling a border dispute, he remembered the wording of his own constitution. Before leaving the country he obtained the formal consent of his Cabinet. This time he went to Cuba to see his "eye doctor" about a little trouble. But this time he neglected to get the Cabinet's consent...
Next day the editor snorted in his front-page column: "When you help to overturn a man's applecart, wreck his gravy train, expose his motives and frustrate his purposes, it is but natural for him to be indignant about it. However . . . not even a rattlesnake will attack without warning...