Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pancakes. But most sensible people were inclined to laugh it all off. Scientists and aviation officials, to whom the mystified U.S. turned for an explanation, were sure that the whole thing was nothing more than "mass hysteria." Englishmen began to compare the "flying saucers" to Scotland's Loch Ness monster...
...Mass poisoning. Caldrons of hot tea and mercury chloride were served to hundreds of people. (The bell kept ringing, but this report took more than five minutes...
...Nazi mass killing of Jews had a very bad effect in Poland. Once Poles knew it was that easy to kill Jews, the tendency and temptation was there. I will never forget the day that the Nazis killed 17,000 Jews at Maidanek while I was in another part of that concentration camp. That evening many of my Polish fellow prisoners got drunk to celebrate. That's terrible. But it's true...
...triangle: "Advertisers won't sponsor television programs without a mass audience. We can't get mass audiences until the American people are given . . . pleasing . . . entertainment. And ... no private companies are big enough to finance it." (One topflight show, McDonald estimates, would cost almost $10 million a year...
...bread was fine for her son; neighbors also found it fine. Like many Americans, they were tired of the mass-produced American bread scientifically refined until it is purified of almost all taste. At their urging, Mrs. Rudkin took eight loaves in a wicker basket to a nearby grocer. They were sold so fast that she set up a bakery of her own in the stable of her Pepperidge Farm, hired a neighbor girl, Mary Ference, to help her bake. In three months she had sold $2,500 worth of bread. By September 1938, the end of her first year...