Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Red Menace For the first time in three years the U.S. Treasury had to get out the red ink. It was a lusty $1,811,440,047.68 in the hole for fiscal 1949. The Government had spent $40,057,107,857.79-a peacetime record-while taking in only $38,245,667,810.11. The deficit was more than three times as much as Harry Truman forecast in his January budget message...
...Harry Bridges' fast-talking Red-fringed lieutenants told the men to stick to their demand for a raise of 32 cents (to $1.72 an hour). The stevedores did as they were told. They overwhelmingly (1,467 to 149) rejected the offer and voted to stay on strike. Said I.L.W.U. strike strategist Henry Schmidt: "I've told the men they can look for rough times from now on." So could the rest of Hawaii's 540,000 residents...
...Greece, where the U. S. first took an aggressive stand against the Red tide, Communist guerrillas were...
...eight days at Wellesley, Congregationalists debated resolutions and listened to speeches from their own and visiting churchmen. They heard New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, railing against the Red-hunting temper of the times, urge that "Americans should call a halt before hysteria demands that sermons be submitted to Congressmen before delivery." They were reminded by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr that Christians "frequently wrongly and self-righteously" blame modern ills upon secularism without confessing that "some of the achievements of democratic society are secular in origin and were attained in the teeth of Christian opposition." They passed...
...Counts red and white cells in the blood supply...