Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landed, tossed the animal into the cockpit. As the plane flew on again the coyote revived, started fighting its captors. The ship spun crazily while Pilot Ice turned to help his friend. He ended the battle with a monkey-wrench - favorite weapon of airmen for subduing rambunctious passengers and panic-stricken pupils.* Pilot Ice got back to his controls just in time to prevent a crash...
...Stage Coach Inn at Locust Valley, L. L, oldtime newspaperman (Atlanta Constitution, Chicago Tribune) and Klondike miner, founder of the Optimists Club of America (membership 300,000); in Locust Valley. He took the first shipment of gold out of the Klondike, made a fortune, lost it in the panic of 1907, founded his club soon afterward...
...week the Federal Reserve reported that for the first eleven months 981 banks with deposits of $515,486,000 were suspended, which compares to 372 banks with deposits of $129,000,000 in the relatively quiet year of 1928, 132 banks with deposits of $233,000,000 in the panic year of 1907. Preliminary estimates place the 1930 total at 1,121 banks with $700,000,000 in deposits. Of these failures, the greatest part has occurred in recent months as the follow-ing table shows...
...conference trust companies appealed to banks for aid. When the public heard of the meeting tremendous runs started on two trust companies. Secretary of the Treasury George Bruce Cortel, now president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York, arranged a $35,000,000 credit. On Oct. 24 a great panic swept the Exchange. Demand loans rose to 125%. J. P. Morgan and associates released $25,000,000 to assuage the situation. But not until Nov. 6 did bank runs stop...
...lost, was rousingly cheered. The Belgian Government officially announced that the deaths were due "solely to the cold fog," thus scotching rumors that War gases buried by the retreating German Armies had escaped. As on the three previous occasions when "poison" fogs have appeared, apparently no one in the panic stricken Meuse Valley thought to bottle a sample of the fog before it blew away. With nothing to work upon last week (for bereaved relatives delayed, attempts to obtain the bodies of fog-victims for autopsy), scientists could only guess what may have happened. Guesses: "Deadly gases from the tail...