Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly man is motivated by fear of hunger and desire for gain-by the stick and the carrot if you will. But the oversimplification and the error is the assumption that these are the necessary motives to human social action as they may be for donkey biological action...
...differs from other animals-notably the donkey in this connection-in that perhaps his strongest motivation is desire for prestige, status, the approval of his group? Is the businessman who gives up a $50,000 a year job to become a college president at $15,000 motivated primarily by fear of hunger or desire for material gain? . . . Are college professors motivated by the carrot? The truth is more nearly that they labor for ego-satisfaction in spite of a paucity of carrots in their chosen academic course. . . . Whatever is the case for the donkey", the incentive for human behavior need...
...from man's attitude toward the atomic bomb. Bomb No. 4 had been exploded at Bikini before a world-wide radio audience and 40,000 pairs of frightened eyes. Bomb No. 5, set off last week, was the tool of seasoned weaponeers, and the world watched less in fear than in curiosity at the damage it would...
Loop newsstand sales jumped as much as 50%. Sweltering shoppers forgot the heat (99.9 degrees) and bought two and three editions of their favorite papers. City deskmen were hoarse from answering readers' tips. Haggard, red-eyed city editors, living on the brink of collapse and in constant fear of being scooped, deployed every available man, woman and copy boy on the story. Wherever the state's attorney or defense attorney went, squads of legmen went...
...turn in Government jobs-chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, Under Secretary of Commerce-Ed Noble bought New York's station WMCA for $850,000. With it he acquired a lawsuit by ex-Owner Donald Flamm, who charged that Noble had coerced him into selling cheaply, for fear FCC would take away his wavelength. Flamm won another $350,000 in court. But Noble still liked radio. So after FCC ordered NBC to divest itself of either the Red or Blue network, Ed Noble paid $8,000,000 for the Blue, the biggest deal in radio history...