Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow. "All the good restaurants and hotels had many cancellations of dinners, balls and coming-out parties that had been planned. This season we, for one, haven't had a single cancellation. And I haven't seen a soup kitchen anywhere. Even in 1908, after the Roosevelt panic, there was more hardship than you can find now." Meantime, the following took place all over the country as the nation's relief organizations accelerated their pace in the race against human misery: ¶ In Washington President Hoover asked Congress for an extra $151,000,000 to pay wages...
...looked like Panic for a while, with millers cancelling their orders, traders dumping their holdings, farmers selling their crops. Then Mr. Milnor received from Chairman Legge of the Farm Board a blanket order to go into the pit and buy. He did, vigilantly spent at least $1,000,000 a day. He met every December offering at 73? per bu. or higher. When he finished, Grain Stabilization Corp. had added some 20,000,000 bu. of wheat to the 60,000,000 bu. it had held since last spring and the 24,000,000 bu. it had taken...
...Panic stricken, the four young women hastily stubbed out their cigarets, whisked the ashtray behind a cushion, waited with pounding hearts...
...Under a Republican Administration it is called a business depression. In a Democratic Administration they call it a panic. Somebody the other day called it a cycle. They ought to call it a bicycle because both Democrats and Republicans are being taken for a ride...
...sensational closing rally saved Friday, Oct. 10, from being remembered as one of the gloomiest, most unnerving, that the Street has experienced for years. (In that one day Fox went from 38 to 29 to 38.) The shadow of real financial Panic had been over lower Manhattan, cold, terrifying. For weakness among the rich & powerful is disconcerting, and, recalled oldsters, sometimes contagious...