Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people talked any longer of a threat of depression; the relatively minor damage done by the spring recession seemed to have reassured most of the doubters. The sight of smoking factory stacks and the feel of cash in the weekly pay envelope had been habit forming; rightly or wrongly, millions seemed to feel that there was such a thing as looking too hard for a worm in the apple...
This week Monty was to address the English-Speaking Union in Manhattan, publicly and in more general terms. But the nub of his message was the same: that the West could not allow old rancors to divide it against the greater threat of the East. "Civilization is in danger," he said, "because of a clash between two conflicting moral codes: between Communism and Democracy . . . As a Christian soldier I declare myself an enemy of Communism and all that it stands for. Unless this danger can be held, great trouble lies ahead...
Even without a stoppage in dismantling, economists believe that Germany could have attained a reasonable standard of living; now that dismantling has been all but stopped .as a political and psychological threat to the new republic, German competition will soon be a force to be met by the French and British in commerce and trade. Obviously, further demands for wider sovereignty and the chance to produce even more will be revived by the Germans when the Western occupation statute is reviewed next fall...
...Union." When he had quieted down, the U.S.'s Warren Austin dramatically delivered the West's answer to Vishinsky. It was a sweeping Anglo-American resolution on "Essentials of Peace." Among other things, its twelve points would pledge all U.N. members not to use force or the threat of force in ways contrary to the U.N. charter; to refrain from fomenting civil strife in other countries; to carry out international agreements in good faith; to promote human rights; to grant free access to U.N. agencies; to exercise restraint in the use of the U.N. veto; to drop barriers...
...they monkeying with the A & P?" asked the Wayne Public Market of Wayne, Mich. "A & P is one of the leaders in holding food costs down . . . We regard this threat ... as a threat to us." Groceryman Paul Simpson, who learned his trade behind an A & P counter before he opened his two Atlanta supermarkets, said: "I welcome A & P competition because ... A & P taught me to serve the public better." Wrote an independent New Orleans supermarket operator: "Destroying the A & P would mean eliminating competition...