Word: threats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held a joint conclave, then dispatched U. S. Chamber President W. H. Plant on the Empress of Russia which will reach Vancouver November 14. President Plant, who is Far East Manager for U. S. Steel Products Co., announced that he is bringing "startling details of the carefully planned Japanese threat to the American commercial stake in China...
...built in 1921, a Dewoitine, a Hawker Fury, a Gipsy Dragon - which Malraux had purchased for the Government. There was a twin-engined, high-wing Potez which carried a crew of five and in which Malraux flew as copilot. There was a modern, fast Boeing, useful only as a threat be cause the machine gun could not be synchronized to fire through the propeller. No match for Franco's air force, Malraux's fliers dodged behind clouds, avoided combat as much as possible. Crews were made up of professional fliers hired on contract, volunteers with more enthusiasm than...
Working under no threat of immediate mobilization or war, the personal representatives of the six Presidents proceeded-almost leisurely, if compared to last month's hasty Czechoslovak map redrawing-to have photographic surveys of the disputed, triangular-shaped territory taken, to consider what would be natural boundaries, to take full economic account of such entities as river valleys and mountain ranges. The arbitrators were to make their awards on the basis of "antecedents" as well as problems of "mutual security and geographic and economic necessities...
Most of Chicago's subway schemes have proposed leveling the elevated loop and the uneven scale of property values it sustains. Successfully opposing such plans have been the real-estate and business interests entrenched inside the "Loop." But last week a plan that contained no threat to the "Loop" was on its way to fulfillment. Signed by President Roosevelt was a PWA allotment of 18 million lend-spend dollars, representing 45% of the cost of a $40,000,000 7.6-mile subway system which Chicago must start building before January 1, and must have substantially completed by June...
...spite of the grave social dilemmas they point to-the threat of fascism, war. increasing nationalism, moral confusion-the contributors to America Now are optimistic about the future. They see science, rapid communication, the "prophylaxis of ideas" working for international good will faster than the forces of reaction can work against it. If, they suggest, reactionaries persist in running counter to the people's deep-seated desire for progress and peace, their newspapers will go unread, their movies will be shunned, their broadcasts unheard, their advertising ignored and, if they resort finally to force, their necks broken. Though pessimists...