Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road tour. They had a cross-country junket all worked out, and a fine crowd-teasing routine: a little lulling piano music by their star performer, Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, accompanied by stirring oratory to prove that it was the U.S. and not Russia, which was the real threat to peace...
Four days later Johnson followed up that threat with a major personnel change which looked like the first crackdown. Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, wartime task-group commander, was relieved of his post as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and made Commander in Chief of the stripped-down Pacific Fleet (TIME, April 4). Able, popular "Raddy" Radford would get the four stars of a full admiral, but officers of the Navy and the other services got the point: Radford had been the most articulate, determined foe of what the Navy regards as an Air Force threat to the functions...
...eyed some cases of champagne which no one had the heart to open. Last week in Rhodes Mediator Ralph Bunche happily ordered the crates broken, and the champagne corks popped. Israel had just signed an armistice agreement with Transjordan, the only Arab country whose troops were still a real threat to peace in the Holy Land...
...thanks to a wartime pitcher shortage, he found himself in a Boston Braves uniform for a while. But it wasn't until he joined the Navy that he learned some of the fine points. Says he: "If I made a bad pitch, it wasn't a threat to my bread & butter. So I went out there [with the Chapel Hill preflight team] and practiced the things I had learned in '42. I discovered that real value of the change of pace, and I was amazed at first how completely it fooled the hitters...
Amid these signs of deflation, President Truman stubbornly insisted that inflation was still the threat. But most Government economists were talking differently. Dr. Ewan Clague, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, estimated that the cost of living might drop 10% within a year. Outspoken Marriner S. Eccles, Federal Reserve Board member, agreed that the time had come to drop talk of inflation. Said he bluntly: "I believe we have been in a recession for several months. But it will not be too severe nor of long duration...