Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When are we going to get over being so "techy" about Yankee interference that we let it throw us completely off guard against our own little ignoramuses, who push their way up by inviting criticism and then shoutting "Yankee interference"-who promote fear by shouting "white supremacy...
Except for an occasional murder, quiet returned to stricken Calcutta last week, but fear lingered. The death toll of last fortnight's Hindu-Moslem rioting, which may never be finally totaled, exceeded 4,000. While the city's poor went hungry, food rotted on loading platforms. Both Hindus and Moslems, afraid of hostile neighbors, jammed the huge Howrah railway station, mobbed the trains...
...economics is never made clear. Certainly neither Keynes nor Hansen has justified or urged support of such policies. And, just as certainly, either of them would be quick to point out that such defensive special pleading arises from the sense of economic insecurity which is the most deeply rooted fear in present-day society...
...included some kind words which said that passengers' fear of the cold, ice and snow of the north Pacific route and the lure of Hawaii as a way-point in the mid-Pacific route may well give Pan Am the advantage. What it mentioned scarcely at all is that the Northwest Passage will cut the flying distance from New York to the Orient by 1,000 miles. Northwest also will do most of its flying overland, where reassuring emergency bases can be built...
...great many American businessmen believe and fear that Britain has become entirely Red. Americans are not inclined to believe very much of what is said by statesmen, politicians and diplomats, but they are always ready to believe what a businessman says. If he writes from England, what he says is accepted as straight from the horse's mouth and is believed implicitly...