Word: cautioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side, there were words of real encouragement for business and free enterprise. Harry Truman wanted wartime controls relaxed as quickly as possible, although he injected a note of caution. He wanted a single head for the struggling three-man Surplus Property Board. He wanted war contracts canceled and settled soon, war plants cleared so that peacetime production can get up steam...
...summary, Fine indicated that the course of the Labour Government would clearly follow its platform program and that the caution of the last Labour Government, headed by J. Ramsay MacDonald, would not be repeated
...work. When it was passed, it was loudly damned as unworkable. Retiring Board Chairman Guy M. Gillette did little to take the curse off, laid down no clear-cut policy to sell the billions to come. To get rid of it, Symington will need to flavor caution (to keep property out of the hands of fly-by-night promoters), with shrewd sales promotion. He will have to find new uses for old products...
...Caution by Commerce. Secretary of Commerce Henry Agard Wallace, who has stood stoutly for 60 million postwar U.S. jobs, last week told the House Committee on Small Business that it would be "unfortunate" if veterans were to attempt to set up more than 500,000 to 700,000 new small businesses. (It has been estimated that between two and three million veterans intend to go into business for them selves, many with Government help.) Said he: "The same precautions should be observed" in making Government-backed loans to servicemen as to civilians...
Londoners felt like celebrating; this might at least be the beginning of the end of nine months of the Things. But they were warned to caution. Reports that the Germans were evacuating their rocket bases in The Netherlands, if true, might mean that the enemy would send over a final shower. Besides, V-1 could still be launched at England from planes operating at night from Germany itself. The despairing Nazis might even load up their obsolete bombers with explosives and guide them by radio to crash in England...