Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Much as we desire to avoid a steel strike, we cannot overlook the effect both on this corporation and on our customers and American business in general. An 18½?-an-hour wage increase . . . must result in higher prices for steel than have previously been proposed by the Government. Great financial harm would soon follow for all users of steel. . . . Such a high and unjustified wage scale might well spell financial disaster for many of the smaller steel companies and for a large number of steel fabricators and processors. The nation needs the output of these companies...
...week's end the hearing had made plain what history had demonstrated pitilessly many times before: commanders who would avoid suspicion and controversy must also avoid military disaster...
...crusade was the fact that hardly any U.S. citizen, jingling the money in his pocket and noting the help-wanted ads, could get very worried about depression. Walter Reuther had tried to justify his demands by claiming that wages had to be kept at wartime levels to avoid deflation and unemployment. At the moment, both seemed some distance away...
...everyone had expected, the Senate disregarded all this argument, voted for the men Harry Truman had appointed. If the President was leaning over backward to avoid Woodrow Wilson's great mistake-turning a cold shoulder to U.S. politicians during the peacemaking-the Senate was more than willing to copy the stance. But the debate had made it plain that a knot of young progressives would not stay quiet if they thought the success of world politics was being sacrificed to politics at home...
Power and Leadership. The forthright new U.S.-Latin American policy was voiced more clearly than ever last week in speeches by Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden in New Haven and Manhattan. "The problem we face is not how to avoid using our power," said hard-hitting Spruille Braden. "We cannot possibly avoid using it, for it weighs in the balance just as much even when we do not deliberately apply it or when we deliberately seek to avoid applying it. . . . If a nation has great power, as we have it in abundance, it cannot shun the obligation to exercise...