Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year approximately $2700 was distributed to students through Student Council Scholarships. The awards were on the whole small, and based not so much on scholastic standing as on sudden crises in a student's finances which might threaten his college career...
...Japanese, who might have counted on the Aleutians as a flanking base during operations against Siberia, as a point from which to threaten Alaska, Canada and the U.S. West Coast, and as a handy spot from which to block supplies to Asia, appeared to have made a bad bargain...
Food shortages threaten to make a mockery of the merchandising might of grocery chain stores. At Chicago, last week, at the annual meeting of the National Association of Food Chains, goliath grocers like A. & P., Safeway and Kroger heard that the foundations of their greatness were being undermined-huge turnover shrinking, their small but carefully controlled unit profits thrown out of kilter by price ceilings...
...build a big naval training station on Seneca Lake. All Geneva's spare rooms were let; cots filled the City Hall, an old movie house, a dance hall, hotel corridors. The once quiet, orderly town nearly went mad. Buses were so jammed that sometimes drivers had to threaten unruly crowds with wrenches in order to make them let passengers out. Decent bars became clamorous dives. Honest citizens dared not let their daughters go out after dark. More policemen were hired but holdups and disorders mounted. Staid, tradition-loving Geneva felt its life was ruined. Everybody was miserable...
...reply, able Mr. McCloy (see p. 20) backed DeWitt to the hilt. Wrote he: "I know of no Army officer in whom I would place greater confidence. He has thought of more dangers that might threaten the West Coast than even you with your alert mind have thus far conceived...