Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with rather ambitious development programs" (Argentina, Denmark, France, India, Japan, The Netherlands). It eased seasonal trade deficits in countries with only one major export crop (Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador). It backed programs in Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru) to simplify systems of multiple exchange rates that threaten trade stability by favoring some foreign customers at the expense of others...
...would be too much to expect an economy-oriented Congress to provide at the same time for the possibility of American aid being asked in internal conflicts within countries with which we are allied. To give aid in cases where Communist troops threaten to overthrow friendly governments, such as Iraq, America would have to be able to get small units to the trouble areas in a flash. Such readiness would be too expensive to provide at the moment, and our best hope is that provisions for wars of small dimensions can be made now. We cannot allow such a palpable...
Piling relentlessly up throughout 1957, such problems threaten a historic change in the political climate in which organized labor lives and breathes. Just four years ago, the weight of political pressure was for softening the Taft-Hartley law in labor's favor. In fact, the notion of a tougher law seemed unthinkable. But in 1957 the U.S. saw how Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa used the nation's mightiest union to grasp for personal wealth and power. And in 1957 the role of unionism in a peacetime economy was called into question as rarely before. As of this...
...trade by selling wheat to the rest of the world, but this market tapered off last year, and Canadians blame U.S. international wheat giveaways and subsidized sales. Unless the problem of U.S. surplus-wheat disposal can be settled without injuring Canada, warns a Canadian official, it could threaten Canadian-U.S. relations even on defense matters. Canada and the U.S. must also work out joint policies for waterpower development of the international rivers of the Pacific Northwest, and Canada must decide whether its own long-term interests permit the large-scale export of abundant Alberta natural gas to a fuel...
...that the present capital shortage will harm the free world's economy over the long run. Most consider it an inevitable and, to some extent, desirable byproduct of worldwide prosperity. In many nations, the shortage of money acts as a brake on hell-for-leather expansion programs that threaten to burst their economic seams. Often the general effect is to create a natural rationing system based on the laws of supply and demand, which tends to channel capital away from marginal projects into more important-and often more profitable-enterprises...