Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the Balkans, the combined impact of radio, press handouts and libraries have made OIC a real threat to the Russian propaganda monopoly-and once caused Marshal Tito to close the U.S. libraries in Belgrade. Italy hungers for Americana, despite the confusion it feels after reading Steinbeck, Hemingway, Dos Passes and Faulkner in the libraries, and then seeing Hollywood's idea of Americana on the screen. India's press has changed much of its hostile tone under State Department persuasion, and in Cairo a Russian press bulletin warned against the spread of the U.S. cultural offensive because...
...coal crisis, industrial shutdown and the blizzards and floods has been to draw Britain's workers closer to their Labor Government. The shocks gave Britain's workers a sense of responsibility, a will to work they had not had for a long time. The sudden threat to their pay checks had something to do with it, too, and the jolt was healthy for everybody. Unhappily along with the jolts came material shortages which make it impossible for millions to work full time at full effort, even if they want...
...princes as a group had a strong position. Ruling one-fourth of India's people, they could swing the balance to the new Government, perhaps end the threat of dismemberment and chaos. But last week they were not a group; it was every raja for himself...
...Yardling infield worked well in its initial outing, pulling off a fast double play to erase a seventh-inning Jayvee threat. The fielding gem of the afternoon, as far as the losers, were concerned, was a long, accurate throw from centerfielder Sullivan to double up Moffle going into third...
...labor's terms can be avoided only by the slim margin of union moderation, at a time when unionists are bearing the brunt of a greatly increased cost of living. Labor leaders are under greater pressure than ever from their followers to bring home increased wages. Only the threat of another round of strikes which might be disastrous to the future well-being of their organizations; with Congress showing increased signs of readiness to swing a big axe at the unions, would prevent these leaders from asking for an increased share of industrial profits. Management, faced with another boost...