Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INTO the post-Sputnik atmosphere of foggy fear and cautious reassurance came this week a careful, levelheaded assessment of the dangers that face the U.S. and some hardheaded suggestions as to what ought to be done about them. This was the Rockefeller Report, drawn by a panel of 19 citizens * after 14 months of hearing expert testimony, weighing evidence and hammering out conclusions. The report's basic message: the U.S.. with perhaps a two-year clear superiority in striking power, is rapidly losing its lead over the U.S.S.R. in the military race. "Unless present trends are reversed...
Tightening Alliances. For all the chronic talk among U.S. allies about neutralism, fear of Communist prowess, weakness of frail economies, inability to make sacrifices, U.S. allies as well as the U.S. have "an equal interest" in withstanding Communism in all-out or limited war. It is therefore in the equal interest of the U.S. and U.S. allies to 1) pool scientific and technical resources and brainpower, 2) tighten allied interdependence in command, 3) keep U.S. forces deployed in NATO's airpower and ground-power shield, 4) provide willing European allies with nuclear weapons and delivery systems-controlled by Europeans...
...combination of a potent cocktail with some protein (just what, no one knows) in the canapés. Battle fatigue and anxiety neurosis have been shown to make victims react violently to a soothing drink or drugs. In several cases that Dr. Meerloo has seen, he suspects that intense fear altered the subjects' metabolism completely. It may be, he suggests, that any kind of stress, including the fear of getting drunk and looking ridiculous, increases the danger that it will happen...
...business. In 1946 furriers had nearly $500 million in retail sales. But success attracted thousands of fly-by-nighters who tricked out rabbit, skunk and black Manchurian dog under such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink. By 1953 fur sales were scraping bottom at $250 million...
...federal law requiring truthful labeling. Said Harvey Hannah, chief of the wool and fur division of the Federal Trade Commission: "The act has done a lot to instill consumer confidence. There was a time when a lot of people would not go near a furrier for fear of being deceived. There used to be 96 different names for rabbit. Now it has to be called rabbit-and not many make or buy it." To complete the process of shaking the rascals out, Congress last year added $50,000 to the FTC's enforcement budget to keep tabs...