Word: franticness
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...before in Chicago alert President Lucius B. Manning of Aviation Corp. (which owns American Airlines) boomed: "I have just returned from Russia, Germany, France, Italy and England. . . . They are in a frantic race to build airplanes and I propose that the United States start at once to build at least 9,000. . . . We are a long ways behind in military aviation. . . . Unless this country wakes up we will be helplessly behind and dangerously vulnerable...
Nestled close against the broad steel beams of the Second Avenue Elevated at Pearl Street, is the dingy Victorian building of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. There one-fourth of all the world's sugar changes hands and there, last week, a frantic little group of sugar traders had been caught short. To cover contracts of 25,000 tons for December delivery, the shorts could not find a bagful more than 8,000 tons. The tightest sugar squeeze in 20 years of trading had sent Exchange managers into daily meetings lasting long after dark. Reluctantly they had suspended...
...year just closed German shipping took the worst beating suffered by the merchant marine of any nation whatsoever. Last week, less than 20 months after the merger was consummated, frantic Nazis abruptly split the two companies they had merged into five. "The reason is," explained Realmleader Hitler's Shipping Commissioner Essberger, "we have found that it is the large German shipping companies which have suffered most. So we must have more small companies." With his chronic German inferiority complex telling him how silly this must seem abroad, Commissioner Essberger blazed: "It makes no difference what foreigners say about...
Anne Morgan, president of the American Woman's Association, and stately spinster sister of J. Pierpont Morgan, advised fellow Manhattan social workers : I do not believe the feminist principle is our solution. I am a frantic believer in women's solidarity, and by that I do not mean at all an anti-man stand, but rather the development of the capacity to stand and work together. . . . I am not a feminist...
...people. But on this particular night. I needed his help badly. Mungkee had just come home from the hospital, where she had had an operation performed. The bandages seemed to hurt her and, foolishly, I took them off. Well, she was in a dreadful condition, and I was simply frantic. So I called Leonard on the phone...