Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alarm, Marketing co-operatives like California Fruit Growers Exchange, Farm ers National Grain Corp. and Land O' Lakes Creamery were not included in the conference, which was solely concerned with consumer cooperatives. Though marketing co-operatives often get into the consumer field by purchasing for their farmer-members, their fundamental inter ests are directly opposed to those of consumer cooperatives...
...into German hands, through purchase or otherwise, of Portuguese colonial territory in Africa. This has been vaguely discussed by London's leading newsorgans for months as though it would be a good thing, notwithstanding that Britain is the traditional friend and patronly ally of Portugal. In their jittery alarm last week, Portuguese hotly aired suspicions that Mr. Pirow is on close terms with the Nazis...
...weekly gross of some $30,000. For the famed Bowes gong now reverberates far beyond his radio audience, in a half-dozen lucrative side lines. There are Major Bowes highball glasses, decorated with pictures of cat & dog amateurs; Major Bowes cotton fabrics, also decorated with amateurs; the Major Bowes alarm clock which rouses sluggards with a gong; the 25? Major Bowes' Amateur Magazine; the weekly Amateur Writers Page in Bernarr MacFadden's Liberty ; a parchesi-like Major Bowes Game; two monthly movie shorts; and 14 traveling shows or "units' of amateurs who have appeared on the radio...
Many a racketeer last week viewed with alarm a reversion to horse-&-buggy justice when a Manhattan jury pointed Charles ("Lucky") Lucania and eight of his lieutenants toward stiff jail sentences by convicting them, not on an oblique income tax-evasion charge but directly for doing illicit business...
...Territorial Forester named Leslie W. Bryan had a vivid dream. In it he saw a dirty, ragged, wretched soldier at a certain lonely spot on the slopes of Mauna Loa. Before daylight Forester Bryan was on his way to that spot. He knew that for a week an alarm had been out for Private Edward Deal, missing from an Army rest camp. Sure enough, at the spot he had seen in his dream, Forester Bryan found dirty, ragged, wretched Private Deal, saved his life...