Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...device to "balance the competing interests of employee, union and management." For state courts to offer additional remedies could well destroy the delicate balance and frustrate the NLRB's decisions. Moreover, if non-strikers were encouraged to sue in state courts, labor unions would be under the threat of "staggering" financial losses, would have to be so cautious they might end up concluding that even federally protected union activities, i.e., peaceable striking and picketing, were too risky...
...Furthermore, Reuther himself conceded that to strike now "would be insane" because dealers have a two-month backlog of unsold new cars. Instead, Reuther wanted to stretch out the contracts week by week, hoping to stall until the 1959 models start to roll out in September, when a strike threat might be heard more clearly...
Nixon also found poor performance in Latin American diplomacy -what Latinos call "blah-blah" Pan-Americanism. The Presidents' Conference in Panama in 1956, sponsored and attended by President Eisenhower, is scorned as "just a gesture" by U.S. friends such as Galo Plaza. Except for Communist crises -the Red threat to Guatemala -Secretary of State Dulles is virtually inaccessible to hemisphere diplomats for serious discussions. He is criticized for staying at the 1954 Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas just long enough to jam through an anti-Communist resolution, and fly home, leaving the question of economic relations, dear...
...solution -is that the worst possible course for the U.S. is to erect further tariff barriers against foreign commodity imports. While the victims of the commodity slide do not blame the U.S. for the falling prices, they do blame it for the quotas and tariffs -and the threat of more -which can only make their plight more painful. The best long-range solution to the economic problems of the world's underdeveloped lands is a free market for trade in which they are able to take full advantage of their abundant materials and low costs, thus earn themselves...
...small nations are as out of place in international skies as pigeons among peregrines. More often than not they cannot operate except by turning themselves into cut-rate, fly-by-night carriers along the lines of the first postwar U.S. nonsked airlines. Usually, they do not pose a competitive threat to well-established lines, but in Latin America they have made flying a cutthroat business (TIME...