Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court to broadcast on any controversial subject was unprecedented. For an Associate Justice to deal with the topic that awaited Hugo Black was wildly sensational. When he arrived in Norfolk, Va. last week after a tour of Europe and told newspaper reporters that he would not speak for fear of being misquoted (see p. 50), his prospective broadcast instantly became radio's biggest attraction since Edward VIII's abdication. Wildly delighted with such a victory over the press, the broadcasting companies arranged a national hook up. At 9:30, when the broadcast began, there was practically nothing...
...alone, a general decline in commodity prices is a black, bearish, omen, for in the long run it indicates a dwindling world demand for goods. The present decline, however, seemed to be more of a temporary readjustment after manufacturers had been scared into overbuying early this year, both by fear of further rises and by fear of strike stoppages. For no unmanageable surpluses overhang markets, and if goods continue to go into consumption at close to the present rate, manufacturers may soon use up the materials they have on hand...
...thing in particular still threatened commodity prices, however, a drop in pound sterling, dominant currency of world commodities. Last week there was little indication that the pound would not remain reasonably stable, but there was fear that the franc, down last week to a new eleven-year low, might eventually topple the pound (see p. 24). In the long view, sinking foreign currencies may be inflationary, may lead to another cut in the dollar. But immediate effects, as Herbert Hoover liked to point out after Britain left gold in 1931, are sometimes unpleasantly deflationary...
...fall steel production were revised from 75% of activity to 70%. New financing was postponed. And the National Association of Purchasing Agents, cagiest of all buying groups, saw fit to warn that buying should be "conservative" when there was so much uncertainty, even though there is "no real fear of a serious letdown" in fall business...
...blonde on a bench with pickaninnies. Inside is a big desk which no one, however pompous, may pass without presenting an invitation (issued this week only to socialites and nouveaux riches)-a barrier raised partly for swank, partly to keep out style pirates of whom couturiers have a healthy fear, in spite of the fact that to make cheaply a good copy of either the drapery or workmanship of a fine dress is often virtually impossible...