Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet the threat of famine caused by a three months' drought, Russia will lend Rumania 150,000 tons of grain, repayable within one year. Interest rate: 5%. Russia will also take less Rumanian grain to feed Soviet occupation forces (between...
Said Wright proudly in 1932: "There may be more awful threat to human happiness than earthquake-I do not know what it can be." He had not counted on aerial bombardment...
...committee was well aware, are not new. But where the committee parted company with other planners, notably Beardsley Ruml, was in insisting on a budget balanced every year rather than over the business cycle. Its chief argument was that deficit spending is a "narcotic" which, once used, is a threat of progressive inflation...
...Pattern. Since last month's stiffening of the U.S. attitude on eastern Europe, Russia had climbed down a little way. It realized at last that the Western powers held a potent threat: they could refuse to sign peace treaties with puppet governments in Eastern Europe. For a fortnight the Russian press raged against Anglo-American interference with internal affairs of sovereign Balkan nations. London denied the charge of Balkan intrigue. Once the U.S. and Britain had taken a firm stand, direct intervention was not necessary to encourage democratic elements in eastern Europe which looked to the West for both...
...indirectly, that she had not been offered the bomb. An angry article in New Times (successor to the Soviet trade unions' War and the Working Class) urged international pooling of atomic data. New Times bastinadoed the "Hearst-Patterson-McCormick press" for suggesting that the U.S. hold the bomb threat over international negotiations, and added: ". . . The fundamental principles are well known, and henceforth it is simply a question of time before any country will be able to produce atomic bombs...