Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States," which, among other things, reduced pensions and allowances to veterans. He said, "Let no one be deceived! This is not a time of peace. We are in the midst of the most disastrous conflict that has ever cursed this continent. Measured in terms of human suffering this panic's war against us has been more asgonizing than all the military conflicts in the Nation's history. * * * Our country has long been invaded by all the minions of industrial and financial destruction and fear. At last we are at Armageddon. All the merciless forces of annihilation are arrayed...
When Depression nipped him in 1930, Cyrus Stephen Eaton had realized only one of his many ambitions. Out of a tiny utility property picked up cheap in the 1907 panic he had built one of the largest power & light systems in the U. S. He had wanted to form the Second Biggest Steel Company. As the largest investor in the largest rubber companies he had planned to bring peace to that warring industry. But. above all. this youngish man from Pugwash. Nova Scotia dreamed of a Midwest industrial empire, vast, powerful, autonomous. His holding company was appropriately Continental Shares...
...average suicide rate for 100 cities in 1932 was 21.3 per 100,000 population which has been surpassed in all U. S. history only by the 21.5 rate of 1908, a post-panic year. Since 1923, when the rate was 14.8, there has been no remission in the incidence of U. S. suicides. The rate was 17.9 for 1928; 18.1 for 1929; 19.9 for 1930; 20.5 for 1931. Davenport, Iowa, had the highest city rate (50.3) last year. Of the nation's five largest cities, Los Angeles at 28.8 had the highest rate. Commented Dr. Hoffman: "Just as there...
...pure young heiress (Carole Lombard) who consults Bavian to get news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht. He breaks out of her cabin in a puzzled panic and manages to strangle himself, apparently on the anchor rope, while trying to escape. Silliest shot: Bavian leering at his poor old dipsomaniac landlady until she falls over in a giggling swoon...
...team into the "World Serious," then riots himself into jail, refuses to come out and play. When he is finally released his confreres suspect that he has been dickering with city slickers to throw the game. Only in the last ten seconds of a wild inning does the panic-stricken team realize that Elmer is out-slicking the slickers...