Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gloomy foreboding that war would cut the U.S. standard of living 25%. And some of Cherne's "startling" facts are not so startling e.g., that one-fifth of the nation's land (long in the public domain) is owned by the Federal Government, that this is somehow a threat to private enterprise. And even pushovers will wonder how Cassandra Cherne reaches his last-chapter reversal. He concludes : "America will hit the shoals of unemployment and free itself. It will rub along the reefs of depression and then reach new levels of production...
...first time in 18 years, North Dakota's slick Gerald Prentice Nye faced a real threat to his well-warmed seat in the U.S. Senate. On June 27, Congress' foremost isolationist goes into the hardest primary fight of his career...
...power to punish any employer who disobeyed: WPB could deny him materials; OPA could limit his gasoline rations; other federal agencies could prevent him from negotiating war contracts. WMC also could give his employes automatic "certificates of availability" so that they would be free to quit (this threat has already been invoked twice in New York...
...threat to healthy gourmets, the new diet has three medical uses...
...visit to Kenanpo was a side trip on the way to Yenan, Communist China's capital in the province of Shensi, barred to correspondents since 1939. First stop in Shensi was at Sian, since 1937 the Kuomintang's key military and political bastion against the Communist threat. There the correspondents were handsomely wined & dined. Dense crowds lined the streets, breaking into staccato cheers at a given signal. Waiters had "V" for Victory hastily stitched on their caps. A plane had brought them to the capital of Shensi; busses and horses would take them over the rest of their...