Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlisted man named E. J. Lord. Mrs. Fortescue, composed and smiling, sat on the roadside until more police arrived as an escort back to Honolulu where Albert Orrin Jones, a second enlisted man, was also taken into custody. The great siren atop Aloha Tower shrieked a general alarm to the National Guard...
Last week Dr. Solon Justius Buck of University of Pittsburgh, viewing with alarm the fact that "tons of history" are being swept up from the floor of U. S. libraries every day, urged the American Council of Learned Societies, meeting in Minneapolis, to consider the need for preserving newspaper files as invaluable re-search material...
...further precaution a CO meter to register presence of the gas as low as .02% was perfected by the Navy and Mine Safety Appliances Co. The device may be installed on the instrument board of any plane. A special type, with an auto-matic alarm, was designed for the U. S. S. Akron...
Viewed with alarm by conservative architects and city planners is skyscraping Radio City, the $250.000,000 Rockefeller development on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan (TIME, March 16 et ante.). The design of this cultural-commercial group of buildings, as yet nothing but three excavated city blocks, has been flayed as a "monstrosity." Its construction without adequate transportation planning has been called a "crime" because its inhabitants will congest an already over-congested area. Last week bristle-haired Raymond Mathewson Hood, one of the three designers of Radio City, went to its defense in an interview in which he praised congestion...
...copper company selling abroad independently would have no trouble underselling Copper Exporters. Last week, in expectation of a rough-&-tumble fight, sellers deluged the copper market, buyers withdrew. The result was a new low of 6¼?. Hence the alarm of Katanga, great proponent of sales pools; hence Katanga's hope-that their acceptance of curtailment would send Phelps Dodge back to the fold...