Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debate in the Senate on approving for another three years the current trade agreements policy suggests again the remarkable dearth of popular interest in this very practical aspect of our foreign affairs. In what other country with, such far-flung foreign trade and investments would Senators view with genuine alarm an increase in the receipt of the good things of this earth from abroad and cry for a return to the days when we habitually shipped out much more than we received? Intelligent readers desiring light on the facts as impartially and expertly thrown as we can humanly expect, would...
Mussolini, who was denounced by im plication recently by the Archbishop of Canterbury for "Italian atrocities in Ethiopia," last week was directly attacked by the Dean of Winchester, to the alarm of the British Foreign Office which took pains to intimate that monkeying with Mussolini is risky work for the United Kingdom's State Church. At London, in the presence of Emperor Haile Selassie, a solemn Anglican service for native Ethio pian war dead climaxed when the Dean of Winchester said the Italian people ''have been seized by a spirit of evil of a superhuman nature...
...Stock Exchange, which views with growing alarm the public's voracious appetite for low-priced issues, the PPX performance looked positively fraudulent...
Sales of drugs comprise 55% of Walgreen Co. business, but drugs to Walgreen mean not only prescriptions and patent medicines but all of more than 13,000 items not sold at cigar counters and soda fountains, including sunsuits, liquor, radios, alarm clocks, golf balls. Prescriptions account for only 2½ of total sales, proprietary medicines 30%. Like every other chain store, Walgreen favors its own brands.- However, a customer asking for a nationally-advertised product always gets it, usually at a lower price than anywhere else in the neighborhood. Motto of the 20th-century general store: "You're always...
...London, Western Clock Co., makers of Big Ben alarm clocks, of La Salle, Ill., was enjoined from advertising its products in Britain as "made by makers of Big Ben" upon the complaint the of E. Dent & Co., Ltd., which made famed Big Ben atop the Houses of Parliament, named upon completion in 1858 for Commissioner of Works Sir Benjamin Hall...