Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professional Handicap. In New London, Conn., Alfred Mills, 26, broke into a bottling plant, tripped the burglar alarm, continued to ransack the premises, later explained to police who caught him: "I'm hard of hearing...
Testing. In Haverhill, Mass., fined $25 for a false alarm, Catherine Yuele explained that her boy friend, a fireman, had failed to show up for a date...
...near crisis" in agriculture revealed by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, who doubles as party secretary and overlord of Soviet farming. Khrushchev succeeded Malenkov in Stalin's old job as boss of the party; the fact that he confessed a "serious lag" in food production attests to the growing alarm of the Soviet leaders. The facts, as Khrushchev gave them: ¶ A shortage of cattle in 1952 equal to 22 million head. ¶ A decline in pork, from 5,000,000 tons in 1940 to 1,600,000 in 1952. ¶ A drop in butter production, in Siberia alone, from...
Exploding Alarm. A fire alarm that explodes with two bulletlike reports 30 seconds apart at a temperature of 400° F. will be made by Southland Industries, Inc., Chattanooga. The alarm, consisting of two cylinders of gas in a six-inch length of stainless steel pipe, can be placed anywhere in a home. Probable price...
Brownell produced some of the letters that the FBI chief had sent to the White House. They left no doubt of the FBI's urgency and sense of alarm. He described one 28-page report-devoted exclusively to White-in which the FBI told the White House that its facts had come from 30 informants, all evaluated as reliable sources...