Word: threateningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complaints of the textile industry threaten to split the Administration on the problem of the State Department's free trade stand v. the Agriculture Department's farm price supports, which encourage farmers to grow so much cotton that the huge surplus must be dumped on the world market. Last week the Department of Agriculture, which by law must make the U.S. cotton surplus available to world markets at competitive prices, asked the Tariff Commission for an 8? per lb. duty on cotton imports. Such a tariff would make up the gap between the low cost of raw cotton...
...termer.* They also fear that Powell, by using his old technique of tacking hopeless civil rights riders on to favorable labor bills, will effectively block the bills. Despite this sound suspicion, Meany's public blast against Powell backfired, brought to the surface some old inter-union disputes that threaten to split the A.F.L.-C.I.O. In particular, it rekindled a smoldering feud between Meany and able, aging (70) Asa Philip Randolph, head of the Sleeping Car Porters union and conspicuously the only Negro in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command. Honest A. Philip Randolph is no steady supporter of crafty Congressman...
...producers throughout the Arab world heard of the Japanese strike with some dismay. New oil discoveries have already helped saturate the market, threaten to drive petroleum prices down. In spite of the glut, the search for new fields gallops along in the Mideast and North