Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unceasing campaign to protect the nation. . . . Many of these battles have had to be fought in silence, without the cheers of the limelight or the encouragement of public support because the very disclosure of the forces opposed to us would have undermined the courage of the weak and induced panic in the timid. Hideous misrepresentations had to be accepted in silence. . . There has been much of tragedy but a great national victory has been achieved¯President Hoover at Des Moines...
Mark Sullivan, good Hoover friend and Republican journalist for the arch- Republican New York Herald Tribune, not only announced the end of Depression but said that Recovery was reaching its "second stage." "The first stage is the recovery from extreme depression and panic. . . . The panic conditions are completely over and will not return. . . . Ogden Mills, Secretary of the Treasury, estimates July 27 as about the date that marked the ending of that final phase of the depression. . . . There is now practically no one in any area of serious thought who doubts that the depression is ended. . . . Practically no one doubts...
Each & every U. S. citizen last year swallowed 133.2 lb. of meat inclusive of goats. Since the end of the beefsteak era meat consumption has tended to decrease. Pork has supplanted beef as the prime item of U. S. meat diet. Highest per capita meat consumption was in the panic year 1907?155.1 lb. As Food Administrator, Herbert Clark Hoover brought it down to 120 lb. in 1917, but it had climbed back to 149.7 lb. by 1924. Theories of balanced rations and a trend to vegetarianism have since cut it down sharply...
...retribution. . . . New blows rained upon us. ... The world-wide storm rapidly grew to hurricane force. . . . Most Gigantic Program. "We met the situation with the most gigantic program of economic defense and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic. . . . Our measures have repelled these attacks of fear and panic. We have maintained the financial integrity of our government. ... As a nation we have paid every dollar demanded of us. ... We have provided methods and assurances that there shall be none to suffer from hunger and cold (Artificial applause). . . . We have created vast agencies for employment. We have maintained...
Shortly after he lost his fortune in the Black Friday panic brought on by Jay Gould's gold corner in 1869, the late Berlin-born Albert Frank, then a banker, happened to suggest to a steamship line that it advertise its transatlantic service. Because the advertising drew passengers, he suggested to his banker friends that they advertise their services, helped them write their copy. Because the copy brought customers, Albert Frank founded in 1872, one of the first financial advertising agencies in Wall Street. Successfully fighting the prejudice of the times against advertising by bankers & brokers (it was thought...