Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gloom. The threat of Bridges' union, locally run by a well-trained leftist named Jack Hall, was certainly there, however. And although the Japanese laborers showed little evidence of revolutionary zeal, many businessmen thought they saw more than the threat of a strike; they saw Communism stalking the cane-brakes and the pineapple fields...
...government had been able to overcome it. Collapse of the strike, however, did not mean that Communist power in Italy was broken or even badly bent. Conservative Rome was not the Red stronghold. Yet the Rome fiasco cost the Communists face, and partially freed De Gasperi from the constant threat of veto action by Communist-led unions against government policies...
...reason for the cautious steps was plain. Despite the hullabaloo over inflation, many a businessman knew that the threat of a recession is very real. No one wanted to swing the club on credit and risk killing the boom...
With what coach Bill Brooks terms an "evenly balanced" squad, the Yardlings, also opening their season, will face their toughest race in the breaststroke. Tech's Bob Schwartzman, formerly the Tennessee Interscholastic breaststroke title-holder, looms as a threat to the pool record. Opposing him will be Stan Cook and Rene Vielman...
...meat supply is faced with a still greater threat-an invasion of the dread foot & mouth disease.* The worst outbreak (1914-16) forced the U.S. to slaughter and burn or bury (in quicklime) 175,000 U.S. animals before it was licked. The next time the battle may not be won-even at such cost. Said Dr. M. R. Clarkson, Department of Agriculture scientist: "If the disease ever gets across the Rio Grande, it would cost the U.S. at least $1 billion a year. It will affect all parts of the livestock industry, and it would be almost impossible to check...