Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yukon Club. Patronage of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., with 15,670 stores, is prized by companies supplying it. Its competition is feared by all other merchants of food, especially National Association of Retail Grocers. Last week the ice cream industry heard with alarm that A. & P. is introducing a line of ice cream in about 75% of its New York and Philadelphia stores as an experiment. The ice cream will be sold as A. & P's own brand under the name Yukon Club. In addition several novelties made by Eskimo Pie Corp. (controlled by U. S. Foil Corp.) will...
...possession, Labrador, to Canada for only $100.000,000. Canada turned down the bargain (TIME, Feb. 29). Inevitably Newfoundland's "dole" then had to be reduced. This produced riots. Twice during the past six months Sir Richard Squires has been mobbed and roughly handled (TIME, Feb. 22 & April 18). In alarm the British Admiralty sent a warboat to St. John's, but Newfound landers, again on their best behavior, entertained His Majesty's blue-jackets so hospitably and quietly that they soon steamed away...
...most common date for suicides. Tuesday is the most common day of the week; 11:00 a.m. the most common hour. This year there is no fatal conjunction: June 11 is a Saturday.* But surveyors of the civilized scene (primitive people rarely, animals never kill themselves wantonly) view with alarm a rising tide of self-murder...
...withdrawals of gold. Exports last week came to $70,000,000, making the total for the past six weeks about $280,000,000. Although bankers knew that the Federal Reserve could lose some $1,200,000.000 in gold before reaching the legal minimum they became afraid that the continued alarm might increase the flow, start a real "flight from the dollar." Likewise they were afraid that it would renew hoarding...
None of the Lee, Higginson partners who testified last week admitted that they had felt any alarm over the coincidence of irregularities in the Ericsson deal and International Match's inability to pay a $4,000,000 loan although its 1931 income had been reported at $20,000,000. Last week they seemed to listen with surprise to the description of International Match's bookkeeping as given by James Naumburg Rosenberg, counsel for the receiver...