Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corn crop to 2,770,930,000 bu., up 158 million bu. in two weeks, but still about 500 million bu. below last year's record harvest. But for those who hoped that a better corn crop meant lower meat prices the Department had words of caution: the corn was high in moisture content and low in feed value...
Retail coal dealers showed no such caution. Many of them boosted prices far more than the increases which, in fact, they had not yet received. Nevertheless, many businessmen began to feel that inflationary fears were largely unfounded...
Aside from his new caution in dealing with the press, Harry Truman had his mind on other things...
York tempered his pronouncement with a word or two of archepiscopal caution. For one thing, confiscation of State endowments would deal the Church a grave financial blow. Far worse, Disestablishment "would be regarded, however illegitimately, as the national repudiation of religion." Further, the Archbishop cited what Poet-Essayist T. S. Eliot wrote in The Idea of a Christian Society: "The very act of disestablishment separates [a church] more definitely and irrevocably from the life of the nation than if it had never been established...
...Nanking Government, always ready to take a poke at its enemies, the Chinese Communists, is more cautious about provoking the big Communist bear to the north. Last week the bonds of caution snapped...