Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Remove the excess-profits tax as "soon as the threat of inflation" vanishes...
...ominous gains in their China offensive-the greatest land campaign ever fought by the men from the little island empire. Although the nearest battlefield was almost 350 miles from Chungking, the atmosphere in the capital was heavy with disaster. The Jap drive was a new and terrible threat to the very heart of Free China, the stronghold area lying in a quadrilateral between Chengtu, Chungking, Kweiyang and Kunming...
Meanwhile, the northern arm of the pincers thrust out three fingers to grasp Kweilin itself. To the Chinese its loss seemed inevitable. Far more disturbing now was a new threat to another of the Fourteenth's bases; the Japs seemed headed for Liuchow, 100 miles southwest of Kweilin...
...gravest of all was the threat of the western finger, resting on Paoching and pointing across the Kweichow plateau to the Fourteenth's great central bases at Kweiyang and Kunming...
Last week that business was a bedlam of deals, counterdeals and rumors. Over all the excitement hung the invasion threat of Marshall Field's department-store millions. He had stumbled on what book men have pondered for a decade: that by publishing's relatively modest standards, there is big money in cheap, mass-distributed books...