Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British three weeks later, he was arraigned as a war criminal at Nürnberg. His sentence: ten years. At Spandau prison in West Berlin in July, 1947, he clicked his heels and handed over to the warders his diamond-studded grand-admiral's baton, a silver alarm clock and 15,000 gold marks, donned prisoner's uniform. Unrepentant and spouting hatred, he took exercise to keep fit, read to keep his mind alert (favorite works: Jack London's dog stories), while his old submarine officers and neo-Nazi organizations still claimed his leadership, and lawyers sought...
...over the Grand Canyon took 128 lives (TIME, July 9), the search for a warning device to prevent such disasters in the future became a major concern of U.S. airlines. Last week the airlines finally thought they had found what they wanted. The Air Transport Association approved a collision alarm system blueprinted by Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a company as little known to the public as it is famed in aviation...
Wall Street bounced back last week from the August slump brought on by the first alarm over the Suez crisis and the Federal Reserve Board's damping down of credit (TIME, Sept. 3). As investors began to pay more heed to good news at home rather than bad news from abroad, the Dow-Jones industrials jumped 5.62 points in the first trading session after Labor Day, one of the biggest gains in months. Wall Streeters took the upswing as a bright omen: the market after Labor Day has often forecast the trend for months to come; e.g., the wartime...
Williams was not alone in asking that question last week. Though no one is in a state of alarm, the drop in agricultural enrollments has become a major concern of many agricultural campuses. At Michigan State University, the number of farm majors has dropped 20% since 1949. To make matters worse, only 11% of those studying agriculture at M.S.U. go into farming. In 1950 the number of students taking engineering at Iowa State College was about the same as those in agriculture. Today the engineering division is twice as large. At Texas A & M the percentage of students in agriculture...
...that fact was furnished last week in Puxico, Mo. There, in a 50-year-old wood-frame house. Mrs. Bertha Reagan, 53, a practical nurse, ran a convalescent home that technically conformed to state laws even though there was neither full-time nurse nor night attendant nor fire alarm. One night last week fire swept through the hallways of the three-story home. Twelve people were killed: Mrs. Reagan, her seven-year-old grandson and ten patients, including one who could not walk...