Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin radio broadcast the Nazis' latest threat : The German High Command "intends by one fell, drastic stroke to end the unbridled mass murder. . . . Mankind is not far from the point where it can, at will, blow up half the globe. The retaliation will be so powerful and will be started at such a psychologically opportune moment as to influence the development of the war." But the Germans could no longer promise bomb for bomb. Said Berlin: "It would be superfluous to retaliate for ruins with ruins. The sense of retaliation will find quite a different and surprising expression spiritually...
Growing Pains. If the war lasted beyond 1946, Columbia Metals would be a solid asset to the U.S. But now it is no great threat against vast Alcoa. The new plant will not get into operation for a year, and then will turn out only a piddling 50 tons of alumina daily (the five West Coast plants use over 30 times that amount). Alumina from clay, in this small quantity, will cost from $75 to $80 per ton compared to Alcoa's present West Coast price of about $60. But Columbia Metals' smart president, James O. Gallagher...
...came at a time when the Jap was digging in everywhere, the Allies cautiously moving forward. U.S. warships, ignoring the threat from Jap-held Rabaul, less than 200 miles distant, steamed boldly off the northern tip of Bougainville, and for 45 minutes poured shells into Jap air bases on Buka Island. Reinforced U.S. troops fought grimly in the jungles of Bougainville, wrenching advances of several hundred yards in the Empress Augusta Bay area while engineers rushed construction of airstrips. Australian troops, using Matilda tanks smuggled in secretly at night, increased pressure against the Japanese in the Finschhaven sector...
...even André Marty represents no real threat to Algerian unity. De Gaulle now dominates both the controlling Liberation Committee and the advisory Consultative Assembly. Frenchmen had waited long for a national standardbearer. Whether that standard was to be the Tri-color or the Cross of Lorraine did not matter. De Gaulle personified a France rampant, able at least to force its presence on the consciousness of other nations...
...vote-getting possibilities: 1) it appealed to anti-Semitic prejudice already fostered by Fascist elements in Quebec; 2) it revived an old French-Canadian suspicion that open-door immigration is English Canada's device to offset the expanding French-Canadian population of the province; 3) it implied a threat of new competition in predominantly agricultural Quebec...