Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the national food picture: namely, the vast reserves of C, K, and other emergency rations currently held in depots in U.S. and overseas by Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines against contingency of war. Despite international squabbling, I believe even military leaders will admit war is definitely no threat for a minimum of a year or two until other nations are in atom bomb production...
Heavy Hand. Brazilian President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his military supporters, no lovers of Communism, were alive to its threat. But their answer had been crude, soldierly. Instead of slamming a cap on Brazil's runaway inflation (200-300%), linking wages to living costs, the Government had outlawed independent labor unions and suspended the right to strike...
...economic opposition to Peron, the vital Spanish-speaking belt will be lost to American leadership as it is forced into the orbit of the power state below the Mar Del Plata. The past conduct of the Argentine government during the war is ample illustration of the consequences of this threat during any future emergency. As far as the United States is concerned, Peron is not to be trusted...
Horton adds: "There is a widespread hunger for security and hope in a world where everything is unsettled, and the threat of atomic war hangs over us all. In such a world men seek for deep, intimate fellowship-at least with one another, at best with that which is eternal and indestructible. In the small sects, many seem to find both kinds of fellowship...
Meanwhile Prosecutor Gerald K. O'Brien was unable to discover one instance of threat or intimidation in the teamsters' relations with the merchants. Said Hoffa: "We contributed something around $3,000 ... [to O'Brien's campaign fund]. We don't expect any favors. We ask simply that the law be interpreted as it is written...