Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago the heads of American Airlines faced an embarrassing task-explaining why one of their DC-45 had gone into a violent dive, on a clear, calm day near El Paso, had flown upside down, and dumped 48 fear-stricken passengers* out of their seats. After some consideration they decided not to talk at all. But last week the Civil Aeronautics Board revealed the simple, if startling, truth. The whole thing had been a, witless practical joke...
...police reached out to the ordering of people's daily lives. Now, with independence, with the possibility of modern states, each community saw behind the other the shadow of the policeman and the propagandist. The Indian communities rushed into violence not to seize power, but out of the fear of the power that was about to fall into the hands of others. And this is a primal fear, deeper than rivalries between such nations as have already known and submitted to police power wielded in their own names...
...comedy also dies, and the remainder of the picture is unbearable--in both senses. Edgar Bergen spins a new version of Jack and the Beanstalk, but while the beanstalk flourishes nicely, Bergen's tale doesn't. The reason why Bongo was cut short probably stems from Hollywood's fronetic fear of Communists; but it seems too bad that the witch-hunt has finally extended to make-believe hears...
...Britain," said one committeeman, "is disintegrating in the greatest order ever displayed, and France is recovering in the greatest chaos imaginable." The key to Britain's recovery was production of coal, and in that effort Britain had fallen flat. Miners, in fear of mechanization, clung to old methods, persisted in working the short week because more than half their extra day's pay would have to go to the Government in taxes...
...that light, recent events were not leading toward war but away from it. Creation of the Little Comintern would help both Europeans and Americans understand the necessity of work and sacrifice in support of the Marshall Plan to keep the non-Communist part of the world stronger. True, the fear of war had grown. But fear and vigilance were close kin. The danger of war between Russia and the West had always lain in the possibility that the West would not understand the danger. The bitter candor of recent weeks was prophylactic, not symptomatic. As Ed Howe used...