Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasantly unexciting score emerges one fetching, early-Porterish tune, I Love You. The dancing, too, is Main Stem rather than Mexican-fast routines and catchy specialties. The sets are vivid, the costumes showy. Killjoy on the hayride is the book, which for a while is a worse threat than...
...Government is already obligated to loaning $27,000,000,000 to American business and agriculture. ... So obviously there is something wrong with private finance. Government domination of the banking field is not just an idle threat...
...Argentina, the dominant "Colonels' Clique" clung to its typical Fascist state, apparently unworried by threats of a British-U.S. embargo against Argentine trade. Well-informed authorities in London and Latin America doubted that Britain would actually go very far on this road, suggested that her investments in Argentina (?387,000,000) were too great, her trade too important to jeopardize. There were other weapons than embargo. A U.S. threat to further arm Brazil and Chile might undermine the "Colonels' Clique." Large credits to set up competing industries in the same countries might frighten Argentine industrialists. Even...
Though its financial troubles seem to be licked and its popularity assured, the Blue Cross now faces a new potential threat: the Wagner bill, now in Congressional committee. Among other additions to present social-security laws, the bill proposes to provide hospitalization insurance for 100,000,000 U.S. citizens, which would knock the Blue Cross plans into the emergency ward...
...huts, coconut groves, rubber plantations (the first recovered from the Japs), an unused air strip. Then they fanned out, trapping Jap patrols who were skirmishing with Australians some 60 miles down the coast. With an Australian column poised inland in the Ramu Valley, they set up a two-pronged threat to Madang, the next important Jap base northwest of Finsch-haven. One day last week General MacArthur's fliers plastered the Madang area with 243 tons of high explosive. The next Allied landing might strike that way-the most direct way to the General's lost Philippines...