Word: fearful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inrush of foreign cars was anticipated by the U. S. motor industry in the wake of such a tariff change, which, many thought, would produce a favorable psychological effect abroad, might even relax tariff barriers now raised against U. S. motor exports. But what many an independent motorman feared was that big U. S. concerns-Ford and General Motors -already equipped with factories abroad, would produce cars by cheap labor for shipment back to the U. S. duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them...
...From Buckingham Palace, over which the red and yellow royal standard flapped once more, it was announced that for fear of chill Scotch mists* the King-Emperor would not be allowed to go to Balmoral for "the twelfth," the August day that traditionally marks the beginning of the Scotch season, the death of thousands of fast-flying Scotch grouse. King George was promised the summer at Sandringham, his favorite summer home...
Realizing that this was a purely technical point, that there was no objection from any party to the spirit or the clauses of the Kellogg Treaty, the Tanaka government advised the Emperor to sign the treaty as written, for fear of causing international complications. To appease ultraconservatives, an official explanation was issued pointing out that the Emperor was signing a treaty written in a foreign language; that the Emperor was doing nothing to lower his authority...
Seeming to support a famine fear was the decision made last week by the Council of People's Comissars at Moscow to retain bread cards and the existing bread prices for at least another year. Under the present rationing system, in existence for more than six months, inhabitants of Russia's larger cities, even those of the grain districts, are allowed but one pound of bread -in some cases only three-quarters of a pound-per person...
Eleven passengers and two pilots serenely started from London to Zurich in the Imperial Airways two-engined biplane City of Ottawa last week. They had little to fear, for Imperial Airways had carried 99,000 persons for 3,800,000 miles and except for one bad accident at the very beginning of its operations, had killed or injured not one person. While flying over the English Channel, as the City of Ottawa had done 100 times before, one of her engines went wrong. The pilot at the controls turned the plane back toward England. Three miles from Dungeness she struck...