Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Voronov virtually rewrote the artillery manual, changed commanders again & again. He preached constantly: reconnoiter thoroughly, camouflage tirelessly, do not fear close-range combat, do not fear encirclement. Stalin helped him out: a separate commissariat was set up to build trench mortars...
...independents with no foreign properties are mainly interested in keeping foreign oil out of U.S. markets. This interest includes the fear that cheap Middle Eastern oil might undercut South American oil markets in Europe and drive that oil (also cheaper than most U.S. production) into...
Pint-sized, grey-haired Arthur D. Whiteside, the 61-year-old President of credit raters Dun & Bradstreet, last week came out as a spokesman for all U.S. businessmen who fear the future. Fresh from a year as WPB's Chief of Civilian Requirements, he spoke to the potent American Retail Federation (representing 500,000 retailers) at its annual meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria. His thesis: the U.S. Government should control civilian goods production "on the basis of 1939" for two to three years after...
This was the same awful fear that panicked the U.S. into theeconomy-of-scarcity regimentations of the late unlamented NRA. For Mr. Whiteside's consuming fear-a fear shared by many-is that all-out production of peacetime goods during the transition from war to peace will glut the postwar market. "If we let manufacturers loose now to produce as much as they want to," he said, "I don't know what we would do at the end of the war." (Behind this fear was another one which constantly agitates WPBigwigs: that an early-bird reconvert would...
Author Sherrod doesn't try to hush up the plain, stark fear that even Marines may give in to under fire. "Colonel," cried a young major desperately, on the second day, "there are a thousand goddamn Marines out there on that beach, and not one will follow me across to the air strip." Replied the Colonel: "You've got to say, 'Who'll follow me?' And if only ten follow you . . . it's better than nothing...