Word: franticness
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Ever since increasing U.S. aid to Britain began to show which way the wind was blowing, Axis interests in the U.S. have been in a frantic flurry of cleaning house, transferring cash and bank deposits to Latin-American nations, hiding stocks and bonds and patent rights in dummy accounts under U.S., Swiss or Swedish names. In Washington it was generally understood that, while the Administration knew this flight of Axis funds was going on, the State Department did not feel the U.S. was yet ready to crack down, risk possible Axis reprisals...
...through Whitsun weekend, before rationing went into effect, there was a frantic scurry to stock up from pushcart peddlers and any stores that were open. In London's famed Petticoat Lane, 50,000 men and women surged around the Jewish street market, bought an estimated 500,000 coupons' worth of clothing...
...Buenos Aires last week appeared a delegation from Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, chief city of Argentina's cotton belt. To a Government already well-nigh frantic over the country's economic troubles the delegation put one more problem. Rains had ruined half the cotton crop, last hope of that curiously international, politically chaotic, economically devastated region known as the Argentine Chaco...
After a series of frantic telephone calls and telegrams with Admiral Willson, head of the Academy, Bingham sent word to the lacrosse coach and manager that Alexis was not to play...
...just man power. It was something even more crucial, which takes a longer time to develop-technological know-how. Former Judge Patterson was on the bench too long to pass sentence until the last deposition is in. But by last week he had heard lots of evidence that frantic U. S. manufacturers are pirating each other's technologists. He warned that such raiding "cannot be tolerated...