Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PUBLIC-POWER DRIVE for harnessing atom will be pressed by Democrats in Congress. They want AEC to build and run $210 million worth of atomic power projects, thus set precedent for Government operation of atom plants for consumers. If program is blocked, Democrats threaten to stop some appropriations for AEC, hold up confirmation of newly named AECommissioners John Graham and John Floberg...
...Cairo could not remember a time when hatred was so directed at them. Day after day Cairo's kept newspapers accuse the U.S. of plotting with Israel and Jordan's young King Hussein to sell out the Arab refugees, to push French massacres in Algeria, to threaten the world with atomic disaster. Street stands are cluttered with paperback tracts such as one called This Is America, with a cover picture of Eisenhower as the Statue of Liberty, holding a gallows rope instead of a torch...
...other actions last week the President:¶Appointed a six-member Cabinet committee (Secretaries of Commerce, State, Defense, Treasury, Interior, Labor) to investigate independent oilmen's complaints that rising crude-oil imports are discouraging exploration for new U.S. oil resources, thus threaten national security. ¶ Attended, with Mamie, a dedication ceremony opening the new $1,250,000 Islamic Center and Mosque on Massachusetts Avenue (see RELIGION). ¶ Nominated, for a nine-year term as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Arnold R. Jones, 53, of Manhattan, Kans. Republican Jones, Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget since...
...change will add an estimated 6,000 skilled African workers-teachers, medical orderlies, agricultural demonstrators, senior policemen, etc., to the electoral lists. But this would scarcely threaten white control. Under present rules, there are about 50,000 European voters on the rolls v. 800 Africans in a population where blacks outnumber whites twelve...
...Cost of Inflation. Quarles expressed far more concern over the cause for the ban, the Government's desperate battle to control soaring defense costs. Expenditures are running $2 billion over the $36 billion budgeted for fiscal 1957 (TIME, May 6) and threaten to wipe out the predicted $1.7 billion budget surplus. So worried is the Defense Department that Wilson also ordered the three services to reduce their buying by $500 million for the rest of fiscal...