Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Encephalitis Panic...
Benjamin H. Day got out that issue in his dirty little printing shop on William Street because financial panic and an epidemic of cholera had brought his business to a standstill. It was a tiny four-page sheet with the wrong date-1832 instead of 1833-printed under the mast- head. It promised to report all the news of the day. In two months it had 2,000 subscribers, within a year 10,000. But not until 1835 did the Sun become famous. And then it was the moon that made it so. A cross-eyed reporter named Richard Adams...
...keep the peace (TIME, Aug. 7). By last week the strike had closed every Frick mine in the county. Other companies were beginning to feel its pinch. Some mines of great Pittsburgh Coal Co. had to shut down. So did others belonging to Bethlehem Steel. Operators were in a panic. As most of them are Republicans, they felt politically stranded without a friend at Democratic court. They knew their old hard-fisted methods of fighting a strike with armed guards would not put their men back to work this time. Therefore the mine guards slouched at their posts while strike...
...shooting down both Oppositionists and bystanders in ruthless efforts to obey Chief Ainciart's order: "Break the strikes!' Tourist steamers, fearing to dock at Havana, passed up the port. Supplies of meat, bread, oils, beer and other Cuban necessities ran alarmingly low, while prices skyrocketed. With panic spreading, Cubans remembered that Mediator Welles delivered in Havana two months ago a message from the White House in which President Roosevelt said: "I am convinced that the restoration of political peace is a necessary and preliminary step on the way to Cuba's economic recovery." Last week the Oppositionists...
...measuring every point, playing himself slowly back to his best game, Perry won the next two sets 8-6, 6-2. From 1-4 in the fourth Merlin brought the score up to 4-all, then 5-all. Perry, in danger now of slipping back into his panic of the first set, managed to break through Merlin's service with a love game. Then he won his own, for game, set, match and the first Davis Cup series England has won since...