Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strategy and hard necessity had dictated the shift. The greater threat to the postwar world lay across the Atlantic, a fact recognized by the North Atlantic pact. Under a peacetime budget, the U.S. could no longer maintain overwhelming defenses in both oceans at once...
Even with its reduced strength, the Pacific fleet should be able to handle any threat directed against the U.S. itself. But U.S. allies in the western Pacific were understandably reluctant to lose the morale effect of U.S. forces on the spot. And Navy men were as sad as if they were leaving an old friend. For 27 years, the Pacific had been the Navy's ocean. They would miss its warm waters and its good weather. Said one admiral wistfully: "The Atlantic is a hard, cruel ocean...
Mexico City newspapers awoke to the threat of a national disaster: Mexican agriculture faced a ruinous fruit-fly plague. Nearly 2,000,000 of the country's 16 million citrus trees were infested. U.S. citrus growers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, with 18,500,000 trees just 250 miles north of the infested area, screamed to federal and state' governments for a fast preventive...
Discussions about the threat of communism dominated the hearing in spite of the fact that Sullivan had eliminated the phrase referring to "atheistic communism" in a revision of the original H442. The change in the wording of the bill confused the testimony of many of the witnesses...
...Formal Education. Johnny Groth has always been a good ballplayer, but until four years ago his game was football. At Chicago Latin School, Johnny was a triple-threat halfback, but never spent much time at baseball. The Navy nabbed him before he could decide which college football scholarship to accept, and sent him to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...