Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emergency, a role in a cheap movie that turns into a hit. When he is on top of the world again, with Juana in a Gramercy Park hideaway in Manhattan, his evil genius appears-a suave, wealthy, possessive conductor and music patron named Hawes. Although Howard struggles in increasing panic, Juana guesses what is wrong, learns that Hawes had been obscurely responsible for his previous decline, tells him contemptuously that only men can sing. Treating bluntly a theme that was almost too delicate for Proust, Author Cain brings his story to a violent conclusion, with Hawes and Juana both dead...
...income of the University from actual investments in stocks and bonds was $4,696,512.83. This figure fell in 1934-35 to $4,655,700.69 due to the number of companies that were forced to stop paying dividends, because of government interference. Repressive legislation created a panic in the financial world, and production was severely hampered, so that there were much smaller profits to be distributed. Since Harvard University depends on these profits to a great extent, the income of the University dropped accordingly...
...Japanese proceeded to the city administration building and, when dawn broke, hoisted the Japanese flag, creating an extraordinary panic among the Chinese forces within the walls, all of whom fled by every available gate, some with and some without arms, and all without firing a shot. Those fifteen scouts, without a single man killed or wounded, remained in undisputed possession of Soochow for the next three hours, until other Japanese forces overtook them...
Carried further back, the correspondence breaks down at several places. The "Rich Man's Panic" of 1903-04 and the brief depression of 1913-14, for example, do not fit into the picture. Yet Dr. Stetson argues that four out of the last five major slumps have followed "in the wake" of sunspot maxima. He mentions two sunspot investigators who failed to find any connection between unusual sunspot activity and abundant crops, but reflected that bumper crops do not always accompany industrial prosperity. Their prosperity curves did not fit well with ordinary sunspot graphs, either, but when they made...
While other popular explanations of the week ranged from a theory that the market crack was another 1906 "rich man's panic" to the notion that it was a "capital strike" against the New Deal, one fact became increasingly clear: whether or not pessimism over fall business prospects was at the root of the market's drop, the market's drop had certainly dragged down fall business prospects...