Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Galoshes. When Napoleon's Marshal Jean Bernadotte became Charles XIV of Sweden in 1818, he was afraid that revolutionaries might endanger his throne. "Sire," said one of his ministers, "the only danger to which you are exposed in Sweden is a cold, and you can avoid that by wearing galoshes...
...Among Bolsheviks, a danger-laden deviation. Lenin said: "Pacifism is ... Popish sentimentality...
Daisy Chain. By mid-1947, the daisy chain of wage and price boosts had yanked up break-even points of many a corporation to the danger point. Warned the National Industrial Conference Board: "Many executives express great concern over the much higher break-even points today than in prewar years. Instances are reported where a moderate sales decline would wipe out all profits and result in deficit operations...
...chain. General Electric's Charles Edward Wilson announced that G.E. was cutting prices from 3 to 10% on about half its consumer products, an estimated saving of $50,000,000 a year for consumers. Said Wilson: "It's time industry and labor faced up to this danger. This building up of prices continually cannot take us anywhere except to disaster." G.E.'s price cut would not let much wind out of the inflation. But Charlie Wilson, by showing the way it could be done, had made an open and trenchant appeal to business for a price...
...real danger," concludes the HTU release, "is that narrow-minded prejudice may so limit teaching that graduates of our schools will be unable to defend intelligently those principles which we all wish to preserve...