Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veep's Prerogative. Democrats had their answers ready. The peril-point procedure, they said, would induce caution verging on stagnation in the Tariff Commission; how could anybody safely predict a peril point for years in the future? It was also an open invitation to every industry to bring terrific political pressures to bear on its behalf. "With the peril-point amendment," argued Majority Leader Scott Lucas, "we abandon our position as the economic leader in world affairs . . . We cannot say to the rest of the world: 'From now on the primary factor in our tariff system is protection...
Vainly, Speaker Sam Rayburn got down on the floor himself to plead for "the whole loaf, not half a loaf." Such economizing, Rayburn cried, was just another sample of the "same caution, the same hesitation, the same wait-awhile" of prewar isolationism. "There's more talk around here about Communism, but it's a funny thing that when we start to do something about it those speaking the loudest against Communism are found wanting...
...huge sausages festoon the show windows of butcher shops. Even the sidewalk vendor of frankfurters has reappeared in Frankfurt. West German industrial production stands at 87% of the 1936 level, steel output has soared to nine million tons a year. But the anniversary triumph requires a damper of caution. West Germany is beset by some alarming economic difficulties...
Proceed wifh Caution. Once celebrated as a playwrights' laboratory (the Provincetown, Mass. Players launched Eugene O'Neill), today's summer theater is in no mood to gamble on experiments. Few of its impresarios will try out more than one play this season, and then with a sharp eye on Broadway-in-the-fall. Last year, out of 81 tryouts in 54 playhouses, three plays actually got to Manhattan and one (The Silver Whistle) managed to stick...
While the summer producers laid big plans, they thought that caution would be a good idea-for the other fellow. They feared that the slumping box office on Broadway and in the cinemansions would spread to the citronella circuit. Besides, costs were up about 5% after last year's sharp rise of 30%, and admission prices were as high as they could safely...