Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever life insurance companies notice that their clients are dying in increasing numbers of some affliction, The Spectator, insurance publication, sounds an alarm. Investigations are started and remedies devised. It is good business for the insurance companies, a good deed for the public...
Last week's cause for corporate alarm was appendicitis. From 18,000 to 20,000 people in the U. S. are dying each year from this cause. The national mortality record, like the mortality record for women in childbirth, is, according to Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, consulting statistician for Prudential Insurance Co., the worst in the world. The U. S. appendicitis death rate per 100,000 inhabitants in 1929 was 15.2. Now the rate may be still higher. For in 1920 it was 13.4, from which it rose to the 1929 level...
...convicts ran out into the rotunda, shooting down a guard as they ran, firing shots at the warden and his deputy. As the warden ran to sound the alarm they cornered a turnkey, took the keys to the buildings, headed for the main gate. Before they reached it the alarms began to go off and guards closed in on them. They swerved, rushed into a factory building, held up two guards, and keeping the guards and 30 other prisoners as hostages, locked themselves in the third floor of the building. There they prepared to fight...
Telephone companies have other uses for their wires besides letting you use them to keep in touch with your friends. They lease them to burglar alarm, news and stock-ticker companies. When a convention or concert is to be broadcast from a hall, it is often sent over a leased telephone wire to a radio studio, thence sent out over the air. Because it is easy to transmit music by wire, with a loudspeaker at the receiving end to amplify it, it occurred to Robert Miller, onetime engineer for Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., that such music might be saleable. With...
Customarily any bedfellowship between the Press and Big Business is viewed with great alarm by highminded journalists and especially by such watchdogs of the press as Editor & Publisher (tradepaper). Even the Federal Trade Commission once interested itself in the discovery that International Paper & Power Co. held substantial notes of 13 U. S. dailies (TIME, May 13, 1929 et seq.). Observers wondered about Oilman Doherty's motive. Had he rushed into the Journal-Post in the heat of wrath, unmindful of the stigma attaching to a "kept" newspaper and all that appears in it? Or had he coolly reckoned that...