Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times' financial editor is Alexander Dana Noyes. His job, however, does not give him his unchallenged position as dean of financial writers. In years, as in wisdom, he stands apart from and above his colleagues. Born the year that Farragut took New Orleans, he learned about the Panic of 1873 first-hand from his merchant father. He was only a year out of Amherst and just breaking in as a Wall Street cub when the Panic of 1884 struck. By the Panic of 1893 he had been financial editor of the old New York Evening Post for two years...
...Addis Ababa the receipt by a U. S. cameraman of a jocular cablegram from his home office, "Presume Addis next; suggest you pick out shelter now," leaked out to cause virtual panic as thousands of natives grabbed their rifles and bolted pell-mell out of the Capital, thinking it was about to be bombed...
...PANIC, A PLAY IN VERSE-Archibald MacLeish-Houghton Mifflin...
decided to build a Class I railroad out of his own pocket, which was exceedingly well lined with Standard Oil millions. Right through the Panic of 1907 he continued to sink those millions into what is now the Virginian Railway, a 600-mi. line running from deep water at Hampton Roads, Va. through the Pocahontas and New River coal fields to West Deepwater, W. Va. It cost Oilman Rogers between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 and was one of the few railroads financed entirely...
...building. He was constantly in search of the "law that will admit of no exceptions." But if he found it, he never set it down. A rapt listener to "the Master'' in the drafting room at night was a young cub named Frank Lloyd Wright. The panic of 1893 smashed the partnership of Adler & Sullivan. Like Gilbert & Sullivan, neither did as well after disunion. From 1880 to 1895 Sullivan designed more than 100 buildings. In the 29 years left of his life, he built only some 20 more. One reason given is liquor. Another is that he could...