Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gained faster. In its first month of operations, beginning Nov. 24, it had dropped more than 1,500 tons on Honshu, concentrating on aircraft factories around Tokyo and Nagoya. The Japs had new interceptors of improved types (known as Jack and Irving). U.S. airmen did not underrate the threat of these planes; the factories building them were top-priority targets. The Nakajima Company's great Musashina factory on Tokyo's outskirts was hit three times before year's end. Said the 21st's commander, Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell Jr., after the second assault: "We haven...
...Russian assault pivoted on Budapest had become a triple threat: 1) the reinforced city garrisons were in danger of complete encirclement, with retreat to Vienna's defense cut off; 2) Malinovsky's center and right wing were arching in a 50-mile-wide pincers movement for another possible entrapment; 3) Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin's big force southwest of Budapest was in position to swing north in a separate drive on Vienna...
...hope for the best." It was a grim bit of humor. In November V-bombs had killed 716 civilians, had injured 1,511. Londoners did not have to compare November's toll with October's (172 killed, 416 injured) to realize that V-2 was now a threat to bring back the worst days of last summer,* before a defense had been found against...
What the Japanese would do when they had steadied their lines and regrouped their divisions was unclear. Perennial optimists on the Allied side fondly hoped that the enemy was preoccupied with the still-remote threat of U.S. landings on the coast. But there was no indication that the Japs intended to confirm this view. Once food supplies had been laid up and winter uniforms provided for their troops, the Japanese were likely to strike again toward Kweiyang and Kunming, try again to cut off China from the Ledo-Burma Road (see below...
Help the Corporations. This year U.S. co-ops will do over $4 billion worth of business, more than ever before. Private business fears that, at their present rate of expansion, the co-ops will some day be a serious threat. For this reason anti-co-op organizations, such as Chicago's National Tax Equality Association (formerly the League to Protect Free Enterprise), are plumping for a change in the tax laws. The main N.T.E.A. argument is that expanding co-ops are taking taxable income off the tax rolls. Furthermore, N.T.E.A. contends that many a corporation is turning itself into...