Word: franticness
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...Bucharest cagey King Carol, who had wooed the Axis too late in life, heard about it when he received a frantic telephone call from his Foreign Minister telling him that Germany and Italy demanded that Rumania submit the dispute to arbitration-i.e., surrender a whacking chunk of Transylvania. The King had until 5 o'clock the next morning. His only consolation was that Germany would guarantee to him what would be left of his Kingdom. He summoned his Crown Council to the Palace, and throughout most of the night King & Councilors cudgeled their brains for a dodge. Just...
...tons of tin it uses annually, the U. S. produces almost none, imports over 75% from the vulnerable Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya. Building a tin stockpile against emergency is one of the Defense Commission's most frantic concerns. Last week Oscar Bach offered his tin substitute to the War Department. He has also aroused interest in thrifty great A. & P. Tea Co. Besides containers for Army food, Bach foresaw another use for Bachited black iron: a building material easily adapted to prefabricated dwellings, barracks...
...Frantic was the rush of U. S. summer trippers hoping to glimpse the Windsors in the Bahamas. The cruise ship Acadia cleared from Manhattan for Nassau with 40% more passengers than she ever carried before. To Bermuda went the President Roosevelt, with reporters and cameramen celebrating...
...listeners radio's first eyewitness blow-by-blow account of a full-dress air battle. Nervous, wiry, a pilot himself, Gardner patrolled the English Coast with a recording van for a solid week before he happened upon an air fight off the chalk cliffs of Dover. For nine frantic minutes, Gardner talked into his recording machine, then whirled off to London to persuade the Ministry of Information to issue a bulletin on the raid an hour earlier than usual. Dramatic enough to galvanize even the most stolid Britisher, the Gardner broadcast wound up in fine sporting style with...
...letters home, of which this volume is a selection. The stunts, it is obvious, became more & more staged, more & more weary, as time went on. Yet the naivete which made it possible for him to invent them was also nearly great enough to exonerate him of their ridiculousness, their frantic commercialism. His last stunt - a voyage across the Pacific in a Chinese junk, which ended somewhere at sea - was of a piece with all the rest...