Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guatemala's Arévalo government also recently introduced a steep profits tax, despite a concession wangled from Ubico forbidding new taxation on United Fruit till 1981. Bargaining is tough. With huge new plantations in the Dominican Republic ready to sprout bananas by 1947, United Fruit can threaten to shut down in Guatemala, as it did in Colombia when disease and the government moved...
...facts as presented, showed deficiencies in food supplies that threaten death by starvation to untold millions in other lands. The facts show this country to be the principal hope for salvation. The facts also show an increase in food consumption in this country of substantial proportions above the prewar years...
Knockdown had been assigned the job of making pace, and got out in front quick. His $26,000 stablemate, Star Pilot, moved up to threaten in the stretch, but instead of being awed by the competition, Knockdown went on to win by two lengths. The prize: 37 times Knockdown's purchase price. He thus became a good bet for the Big Three coming up (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont), whose purses have been boosted to $100,000 this year...
...Hansenne has conscientiously tried to avoid the pitfalls-overeating and high living-which threaten the path of every visiting foreign athlete. He does not smoke, prefers milk to whiskey, tries to be in bed by 8 p.m., cannot understand why there is no horse-steak oh U.S. menus. On his one nightclub excursion, he got a satisfying eyeful of American girls, cautiously explained: "It does not harm to look, no?" A rabid jazz fan, he keeps his hotel-room radio going steadily for entertainment, sings above it his current favorite-"The Hatchayson, Topeka and the Santa...
...realize that disaster was near, for they started the attack which gave then their tie. Andrews took a pass from Ayres at 16:06 and slipped one into the Holy Cross cage and 24 seconds later Eaton took one from Greeley and tied the game up. Harvard continued to threaten until time...