Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story that warned of impending danger...
...appear to see no immediate danger in Communism as a threat to peace...
Sullivan, the chairman of the Education Committee of the General Court, said he thought there was a definite danger of Communist infiltration onto the faculties of schools and colleges in the commonwealth. He claimed that Communist influence already exists in several colleges in the state but declined to mention names...
Economist Kaplan thought it was going to be just a little burp. So did General Electric Co.'s Chairman Philip D. Reed, who thought that the danger from inflation was past, and that the economy is undergoing a "healthy readjustment." President Truman's demand for price and wage controls, said Reed, "just cannot and should not be considered at this delicate period of readjustment.* [It would] give our Government a great deal more power than the Labor government in England has even asked for." (At the White House, President Truman said that even though some prices were leveling...
...Experience? None of the "healthy readjustment" talk sat very well with the C.I.O.'s Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey or some of the farm leaders who appeared before the committee. They thought that there was still danger of inflation, and that the President should get what he asked for. So did John D. Clark of the Council of Economic Advisers, who said: "If this inflationary boom levels off by itself, it will be a new experience...