Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afraid of something else: cancer. So says Esther H. Vincent, librarian at Northwestern Medical School, in the current Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, official journal of the American College of Surgeons. Writes Miss Vincent: "This fixed idea that he would die from cancer of the stomach saved [Napoleon] from fear of death in any other form. Wounded in battle, he took no heed, for he knew he would not die from bullets. His belief in his charmed life was not fearlessness [nor] faith in his 'miraculous invulnerability,' but certainty that death could touch him in one way only. Upon...
Freud regarded anxiety as foreign, unfriendly and destructive. But Mowrer believes that conscience and the anxiety it produces can be man's good companions. Under proper treatment, anxiety can be transformed into guilt and moral fear, to which unhappy man can make some realistic readjustment. Mowrer's prescription: a changed attitude toward social authority and its "internal representative," anxiety. If man's attitude is not changed, he will continue to seek relief from anxiety in such futile devices as tobacco, alcohol, gambling, "sexual monomania," gluttony...
...pigeons to wheel in unison, largely and solemnly agreed on the exact date for the interment of inflation. The recession, they said, would come in the spring. As Barron's financial weekly put it: "The 1947 depression, recession, or shakeout, whichever one calls it, has advanced from a fear to a fad. Not to believe in its imminence stamps one an ignoramus...
...Fever. In all the optimistic bustle, there was only one area of quiet deflation: the stockmarket. The great wartime bull market had died in 1946, scared to death by fear of the recession that is not yet here. Yet the stockmarket went right on acting as if recession were just around the corner. Wall Streeters wryly quipped that New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram "was the one man in the country to reduce prices...
...intramural argument of the year was over steel: Was the 91 million tons of capacity enough to meet the needs of full employment? Steelmakers, haunted by fear of a recession and idle plants, stoutly said that it was. But the grey market in steel, which sold at double and triple the established price, said that it wasn't. So did many a manufacturer who bought a steel plant and went into the business to make sure he got what he needed. Toward year's end, the steelmakers hedged their arguments and started to spend some $2 billion...