Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters, General Alexander paid his own tribute to the Anglo-U.S. troops of the Fifth Army: "The bridgehead force has played a most important role in the strategy of the Italian campaign. The enemy, unable to ignore this threat or to deal with it with troops he had available in southern Italy, was forced to send reinforcements from elsewhere which he could ill spare. These troops have been pinned down by our forces for four months...
...recommended: 1) all foreign-trade agreements of U.S. companies which restrict production or allocate markets should be filed with the Government; 2) the Government should have power to nullify specific agreements. To ward off the threat of antitrust prosecution, he would have the antitrust acts tempered so that criminal action could be taken in the case of foreign agreements only if the company failed to register, or failed to terminate the agreement after a federal order...
Interim War. If the great invasion storm was still a threat, however imminent, war in the west was real enough to the men already fighting...
England, worried about the threat of Spanish sea power, swooped down one summer morning and destroyed half the Spanish fleet. To his consternation, Alberoni found himself faced by half the armies of Europe. "When shall I be able to get out of this maze?" he cried...
Socialist Greenwood had just lost a fight to expel Nye Bevan from the Party for a revolt against the topside line. He had even threatened to resign if Bevan were upheld. But on the showdown Greenwood had to eat his threat. Defiant Nye Bevan, a onetime Welsh miner and long a loud voice for Labor's militant left, had won a significant victory...