Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the spring's activities centered around the Lampoon. After the Ibis had been annually stolen, the comic organization published its Tercentenary number, which was followed with threat of a suit from Boston Mayor James Curley...
Chicago's sculptors rallied to stave off the threat to a potential source of work for their profession. The city's chapter of Artists Equity thumbed through the city's records and found that "excluding cannons, boulders, flag poles, totem poles, chains and fire relics," there were only 68 works of sculpture for Chicago's 6,020 acres of parks with their 205 miles of boulevards and drives. Then, because Illinois Attorney General Latham Castle showed no inclination to contest the Art Institute's decision, Artists Equity moved to substitute its President Haydon and vociferous...
...polls. What surprised both Britons and Americans was that the market kept rising in the face of a paralyzing national railway strike (see FOREIGN NEWS). Most financial and political experts, trying to explain this paradox, calculated that one big factor was an end to Labor's threat to renationalize steel and long-distance trucking, nationalize chemicals and machine tools, etc., and the promise of widepread expansion of industry...
...threat of Soviet air power cannot be dismissed with an oversimplified "numbers game." The growth of Soviet air power must be outmatched by our own developments. If we are to match the qualitative-quantitative progress in Soviet/ air power without cutting bone, muscle and sinew in our Army and Navy, the hope for a balanced budget may eventually have to be abandoned...
...Before single-strain vaccines (representing each of the three main types of polio virus) are mixed to form the triple-threat end product, there must be more tests, using much larger volumes of material. Formerly, one-tenth of 1% of each strain was taken for testing; now, a minimum of 500 cc. must be used-a tenfold increase for a firm making vaccine in lots of 150,000 cc., and probably some increase for all manufacturers...