Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was virtually no disturbance, except that a young man in the crowd pulled out a revolver. Dictator Machado's efficient police sprang upon the youth and disarmed him before he could fire. Amid near panic, the band burst into Cuba's national anthem, gradually reassuring everyone. When confidence was restored, His Excellency continued his rather difficult speech...
...liner. A travelling library on the subject of amours, Douglas' valet, mixes a potion that upsets everything. An orchestra plays; the passengers indulge in an intricate ballet and song while ships officers and winches look on in unmoved silence. The usual almost happens then the news of a financial panic makes everything end up as it should. The steamer and its passengers arrive in a fog at Southampton...
...organized an electric power corporation in Santa Clara, built up the property, sold it to U. S. interests at a fat profit. Sugar was his next interest. Buying a mill near Santa Clara he started grinding cane, considered himself almost rich just before the 1920 Cuban sugar panic...
Beginning in his own stores, Nathan Straus gave spontaneously, individually. His great benefaction was the establishment of world-wide stations which provided pure pasteurized milk at a low cost. Other great philanthropies: food, coal, lodging to Manhattan's destitute during the panic of 1893-94; the first children's tuberculosis preventortum (1909); first Pasteur Institute, first health bureau in Jerusalem; Committee for the Defense of Jews in Poland (of which he was chairman); widespread relief during...
Toward Emptiness. Many physicists are talking today about an expanding universe. The "red shift" observed in starlight has been interpreted by some to demonstrate that the stars of the universe are rushing away from each other like a panic-stricken crowd (TIME, Oct. 6, Jan. 5). Last week Dr. Albert Einstein told newsgatherers in Pasadena that he was anxious to talk to Mt. Wilson astronomers about their observations of the red shift. At the same time in Cleveland, Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard Astronomical Observatory, reported some data about the expanding universe which he expects to repeat later...