Word: franticness
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...believes that the "excess profits tax is doomed; it may not even survive the final stages of war itself." Government, in a frantic attempt to keep the economy running at high speed, will give business every tax inducement, inducement-piling on individuals the estimated $300,000,000,000 national debt...
...past no sucker for German propaganda, reported that such plans did exist. The paper's informants said that the catacombs and sewers of Paris were "stuffed with dynamite," that Warsaw, Prague, other cities were to be laid waste if the plans were carried out, that Berlin's frantic exploitation of Allied bomb damage was to be used to justify unlimited destruction...
...certain, Bombardier Lieut. Edward M. Gibbens, of Mountain Home, Idaho, took a crash ax, doffed his parachute, perched on the narrow catwalk of the bomb bay and started knocking the bombs loose. As the last one dropped away, Gibbens skidded on the leaking hydraulic fluid and fell. With a frantic, one-handed clutch he caught hold of a bomb rack, slowly and painfully pulled himself back to safety as other crewmen came up to help...
Backstage. British diplomacy sighed with relief; three weeks of frantic antics in the cabinet, a nervous treble to the ominous bass of mutiny in wartime, had almost wrecked the careful plans to keep the Greeks in London's orbit. Winston Churchill thought it wise to put his stamp on Papandreou, stress once more that Britain is not irrevocably wedded to King George of Greece. Said Churchill: "His Majesty's Government will give you all support. . . . The Nazi tyrant must be destroyed. . . . After this ... the Greek nation, free from foreign interference, will choose the form of democratic government under...
...also the man who stopped an auction in mid-frenzy when the bidding went higher than his shrewd sense of values told him was sound. Nonetheless, he had some frantic figures to brag about...