Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian Government's tariff schedule against U. S. periodicals, viewed with alarm by U. S. publishers and Canadian newsdealers (TIME, June 15), was made even more stringent last week by Premier Richard Bedford Bennett. The original plan, to be effective Sept. 1, imposed a duty of 15? per Ib. on all periodicals other than educational, scientific or religious. The new schedule admits the exempt classification if they contain 20% or less of advertising. Magazines with more than 20% advertising must pay 2? tax per copy; over 30%, 5? per copy. Nearly all magazines entering Canada from...
Composed primarily of married men, the Royal Commission viewed with alarm '"deplorable and wretched conditions" in Indian factory towns "where there are twice as many females as males...
...frequent trips to East Greenland, built little shack settlements there. The Danish-Norwegian problem first boiled over more than a month ago when a semi-official Norwegian body known as the Arctic Council suddenly announced that Denmark was about to send an expedition to explore East Greenland, sounded an alarm that the time had come for Norway to stake and beflag her claim...
...this alarm the Norwegian Government remained deaf, ostensibly at least, thus conciliating the Danish Government. Not so certain patriotic Norwegian hunters! Vowing that they would get to East Greenland before the official Danish expeditions led by Dr. Lauge Koch, they improvised their own expedition, rushed off to puffin-land, took the puffin by the bill and nailed Norway's colors to Mygg-bukta...
...condition to warrant saving. In one crack the twelve banks of the John Bain chain went down, affecting laborers and commuting clerks in such Southside districts as Stony Island, Auburn Park, Englewood and Chicago Lawn. Although onetime Scot and onetime Plumber Bain said depositors would receive 100%, the alarm spread. By the end of the week 29 banks had closed, Evanston, Des Plaines, Washington Park and Beverly Hills had been added, along with other communities, to U. S. towns where bank failures have caused suffering. Biggest of these was North-Western Trust & Savings Bank, affiliated with the Foreman group, with...