Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milton A. Smith, assistant General Counsel of the Chamber, said portal suits "pose a threat of bankruptcy to concerns which are the backbone of the American economic system...
...reasonableness of labor was tested for the first time last week. In Pittsburgh, C.I.O. President Phil Murray, who is also head of the United Steelworkers, agreed to extend the steelworkers' present contract with U.S. Steel Corp. from Feb. 15 to April 30. With any threat of a steel strike postponed, Congress was less likely to rush restrictive labor laws. Meantime, also, management might find where it stood in the "portal-to-portal" pay controversy (see BUSINESS). The same day, the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther made a similar 30-day deal with Chrysler...
...still loaded and aimed. "In most of the world, effective popular leadership is in the hands of persons who are sympathetic to Soviet Communist doctrines." Spreading revolutionary movements in China, India, Dutch Indonesia, French Indo-China, Latin America, France, Italy gave Communists reason to remember 1946 "joyfully." Under the threat of that Red explosion the U.S. now stands. How best to meet that threat was Dulles' concern...
...York World-Telegram said last week: "The threat of a basketball fix has local colleges so concerned that players are closeted in a hotel room on game days and denied the use of the telephone . . . to keep their players free of association, or even casual contact, with gamblers...
...most portentous threat lies in the fact that the United States now stands at the wrong phase of two distinct influenza cycles. An influenza pandemic, which recurs every twenty to thirty years, has not been visited upon the world since 1918, when it killed twenty-one million people of whom half a million were Americans. The pandemic virus has been due to strike again since 1937. Less powerful viruses, the more common influenza "A" or "B", tend to run in five or six year cycles. Both are set for a re-appearance, since neither has been detected in epidemic form...