Word: ultimatums
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...perhaps the world's most successful proletarian statesman. He ruled a country which, by virtue of its position on ancient highroads of empire, was a key territory in the strategy of present peace or future war. His army had caused the first major shooting incident, the first ultimatum and the first wild rumors of imminent war of the world's uneasy armistice...
...swinging started over a dozen individualistic tram conductors, members of the small Passenger Workers' Union. They had staunchly refused to join the big Transport & General Workers' Union. Just as the Labor Government lifted wartime restrictions on the transport and mining industries, the big union issued a growling ultimatum to the trolleymen's employer, the London Passenger Transport Board: either the twelve must be fired, or all of London's buses would stop. The Board capitulated. But the Passenger Workers' Union forthwith prepared to fight for an injunction against the men's dismissal. Unless...
This threat was made of sterner stuff than the more spectacular ultimatum to the Yugoslavs. The U.S. frontier had once been established on the Rhine. Now it had been moved eastward as far as the Black...
Tito ordered his planes "not to fire on foreign planes, civil or military," released the interned crew and passengers before the U.S. demand was formally delivered, said he considered the U.S. ultimatum no longer "applicable." He promised to rebury the Americans, with highest military honors, in Belgrade's American Military Cemetery (among the graves of some 80 other American airmen who helped Tito during the war), but Secretary of State Byrnes ordered their reburial...
Wall Streeters had their explanations. The bearish sentiment, touched off by A.T. & T., had been caused by: 1) the U.S. ultimatum to Tito, 2) Chrysler's announced shutdown, 3) "discouraging" second-quarter earnings. Moreover, A. T. & T., being a pivotal stock with one of the highest quotations on the market, had a disproportionate effect on the Dow-Jones index. Heavy trading in A.T. & T. had carried the whole industrial index below the market's resistance point, scared holders of other stocks into selling...