Word: risks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good feeling ended in 1946, and the Truman Doctrine of 1947 stated a U.S. intention to contain Soviet power within (approximately) its present limits (i.e., within limits which do not make a war with the U.S. an attractive risk for the Russians...
...last resort," would be a remedy worse than the evil. But the press's own record in self-regulation had not been good. The Production Code had merely made the movies inoffensive (in one sense); the radio was regulated by the unwritten code of advertisers "who will not risk making a single enemy. . . ." The American Society of Newspaper Editors had a fine code of ethics, but had never used...
Distracted by such attacks, shocked by the expense, the U.S. public might in the end withdraw its support. This was the greatest risk. If that happened, the Truman program might end in a fiasco, and Joe Kennedy's theory work out in reverse...
...benefit of all. Last week the agents of that kind of system were busy in the Middle East, where U.S. oil companies invested another $227 million-almost as much as Harry Truman asked for Greece -in the oilfields of Arabia (see BUSINESS & FINANCE). This was also a calculated risk...
...pushed labor toward the left-and persuaded many unionists that MacArthur had developed a filicidal anti-union bent. Since then, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's failure to curb inflation has increased tension, and has confronted SCAP with a set of unattractive alternatives: 1) to abandon all strike control and risk governmental and production collapse; 2) to take over immediately full economic direction of Japan, thus puppetizing the government; or 3) to invoke drastic measures to prevent all strikes, in violation of U.S. teachings...