Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...UNRRA's help is to end with 1946. The threat of hunger formed the background of disquieting political developments. Democratic forces lost strength when the middle-of-the-road Action Party flew apart in a row between its right wing and moderates. Off went former Premier Ferruccio Parri to form a new middle-class group...
...President had more than his routine assignment of crises last week. Across the world crept the threat of starvation, and at long last he tackled the problem. Once, when it seemed that the situation was serious but not critical, he had lifted rationing and other food restrictions. Now it suddenly appeared that Mr. Truman might have been badly advised. Only by cutting its own wheat consumption (see below) could the U.S. meet its moral obligation to help feed the world's starvelings...
...Republican Sun, the left-wing PM and even Columnist Fiorello LaGuardia (who was against the sale) burned Mike's ears with catcalls ranging from "unwise" to "blackmail." But New York's brand-new Mayor William D. O'Dwyer, elected last November with A.L.P. support, heeded the threat. He plumped for the referendum. Red Mike called off his strike...
...indoor track was warming up for its first postwar season. A lot of G.I. legs had been reconverted from close-order drill; the inevitable foreign threat was present. To the 4:06.4 indoor mile record there was no immediate threat. The most likely to break it: fleet-footed, but still slightly rusty Les MacMitchell...
...foreign threat was Marcel Hansenne, France's ace miler, who this week landed in Manhattan, was dead set for a Feb. 2 unveiling in the Millrose mile...