Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 28], it is the automobile industry that is killing it. During the past 27 years convertibles have been designed to be as conventional as sedans; in the past seven years sedans have been designed to be as sporty as convertibles. Yet there is no cause for real alarm. With the increasing number of European sports cars in America, wind-in-the-face driving is not doomed. Further, there is an auto industry parallel to the current safety campaign as it seems to have affected convertible sales. During 1937-39 the industry became very safety conscious, practically discontinued convertible models...
...West Side. Williams Drug Store was a charred shell by dusk. More than one grocery collapsed as though made of Lincoln Logs. A paint shop erupted and took the next-door apartment house with it. In many skeletal structures the sole sign of life was a wailing burglar alarm. Lou's Men's Wear expired in a ball of flame. Meantime, a mob of 3,000 took up the torch on the East Side several miles away. The Weather Bureau's tornado watch offered brief hope of rain to damp the fires, but it never came...
Springfield Rifles. One ransacked store near Springfield Avenue yielded rifles, shotguns and pistols. Soon shots were snapping from windows and rooftops, aimed at police patrols and firemen en route to battle the dozens of blazes that broke out. Over the police radio came cries of alarm. "We're sitting ducks out here-give us the word. Let us shoot." As Molotov cocktails exploded in stores and around police cars, one radio bleated: "We're getting bombed here. What should we do?" Replied the dispatcher, laconically: "Leave...
...installation of an atomic clock and a 40-lb. computer mechanism in every U.S. commercial aircraft. At three-second intervals, precisely timed signals from the computers would surround each aircraft with a protective electronic bubble. When one bubble touched another, the system would trigger an audio-visual alarm and possibly give the pilots a harmless electric shock. In today's jets, the warning would come 60 seconds prior to possible collision, when the aircraft were about 20 miles apart. Twenty seconds later, after electronic analysis of courses, speeds and altitudes, the sensor-computers would signal the best possible collision...
Many brokers share Saul's alarm. "The high jinks on the Amex," maintains Vice President Bradbury K. Thurlow of Winslow, Cohû & Stetson, constitute "classic symptoms of irresponsible overspeculation in 'cats and dogs.' " Adds Research Director Stanley A. Nabi of Schweickart & Co.: "It's not only crazy but also unsustainable...