Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Central, prosperous Hankow, a teeming city (pop. 1,500,000) sometimes called "the Chicago of China," cowered in collective panic as most of the subsidiary dike systems were swept away and the great Chang-kung Dike built of cement under foreign supervision in 1931 held precariously. Amphibian planes reconnoitering above Hankow reported that for miles around the fertile countryside had become a boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard...
...given to quick cigarets and quicker decisions. From Columbia he moved to Fox, from Fox to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Then he went back to the publishing business for a while, becoming editor of Photoplay, and recently "Western editor" of Liberty. The unhappy, pouched eyes of Ray Long grew unhappier. Panic-stricken, the man who once could command $100,000 a year and almost any editor's chair found himself reduced, at 57, to pick-up jobs from old friends and beneficiaries...
...gruff husband had painfully saved, all for Peter's sake. Then Peter was expelled from college. On the same day that she heard the news. Mrs. Fury learned that another son had been hurt at sea. but she scarcely thought of her injured boy in her rage and panic, bewilderment and shame, at Peter's shabby failure...
...worth against Josef Stalin's current drive to reduce the Russian divorce rate and inculcate a few bourgeois virtues among Soviet mates. Russians had heard rumors, and foreign correspondents had obtained confirmation, that the Dictator will soon drastically tighten up proverbially loose Bolshevik divorce laws. In a panic to get in under the wire, every Moscow mate who has recently thought of divorce was last week jamming the official bureaus, called "Zags," and they had the entire sympathy of the Widow Lenin...
...Blue Eagle's head, the copper industry came to a standstill. Nobody wanted to be the first to slash prices, especially since inventory-taking was less than two months off. Aged Philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn, president of Miami Copper Co., did his best to stave off a price panic fortnight ago by crying stoutly: "I have been associated with the copper industry for more than 50 years and only once prior to the Depression have I seen such a low price as 9?. . . . The copper industry is headed for higher prices, and legitimately...