Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incredible and crass stupidity! An act dictated by personal selfishness and frantic fear! It indicates a total absence of consideration for the well-being of the nation's workers and the requirements of an effective movement of labor...
...Addis Ababa last week the Italian radio station passed correspondents' dispatches conveying the bad news that Ethiopian peasants are sowing practically no grain or coffee, "because they fear it will be confiscated by the Italians or brigands." Viceroy Graziani was reported to have appointed a commission to study ways & means of getting the peasants to plant again. "Rumors that a provisional Ethiopian Government has been formed in the West are ridiculed here," read an Addis Ababa dispatch from United Pressman James Rohrbaugh: "The natives in the unoccupied regions are not fighting against the Italians, but among themselves. The Ethiopians...
...young graduates, Dr. Isador Jerome Hauser, published a third analysis of the G family which, now in its sixth Michigan generation, numbers 305 living and dead. In the American Journal of Cancer Drs. Hauser and Weller note that all members of this family have good reason to fear being stricken by the age of 25. Of the 174 living and dead who reached that age, 41 (23.6%) developed cancers of one sort or another. One noteworthy fact about this ill-fated family is that 20 of the men, six of the women died of cancer of the stomach...
...Fear of strikes has continued to inspire steel consumers to buy more than they need at the moment, but the insistent and unseasonal demand for metal from U. S. industry has amazed the most sanguine observers. Operations entered August at 71¼% of capacity, highest level in six years. Prospects of a general business upsurge in the autumn are so bright that a brief reaction in steel operations, originally expected last month but now predicted before Labor Day, would probably clear up what little excess steel inventory there is. In Pittsburgh last week the price ol steel scrap forged ahead...
Disturbing to Manchester is a bond-holder's suit, still pending, which argues that a court in Massachusetts has no jurisdiction over a New Hampshire firm. If this contention should be upheld in the autumn, Manchester citizens fear that more months of legal bickering would delay the start of new enterprises in the Amoskeag mills. Ever since the mills closed a Manchester Citizens' Committee has been trying to find purchasers or lessors for all or part of the Amoskeag plant...