Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embargo on gold shipments out of Japan has seriously depleted the country's gold reserve. Decreased U. S. demand for raw silk has brought a slump to Japan's chief export industry. Last week's cotton strike, and a hint of further labor troubles, brought Japanese brokers to panic's edge. Deeply concerned was the cabinet of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi. A Tokyo correspondent quoted the opinion of several cabinet members that "the present condition of the market is due to manipulation in which the political opposition was concerned...
Playchoice, Inc. is a mature organization, well equipped to conduct such affairs. One day six months ago, youthful, ruddy John Krimsky, bond salesman, sold all his securities. Two days later Wall Street was in full panic but Krimsky's money was safe for Krimsky's scheme: he would apply the book-of-the-month-club system to the theatre. For a membership fee of $45 per season, Playchoice offered a pair of good seats (first to eighth rows in the orchestra) for six plays-of-the-month selected by a critical committee atfter witnessing all promising plays during...
...their companies fared during the first quarter of 1930. But with the end of March, U. S. stock markets were able to look back, see how their business had been. For the most part, brokerage business turned out to be much better than was anticipated during the first Post-Panic weeks, when many predictions of a long period of stagnant trading were heard...
...announced that the demonstration was not to be interfered with "unless they become disorderly." One William Lawrence, agitator, attempted to climb the White House fence. Police judged the incident sufficiently disorderly, threw acrid tear gas bombs, charged the crowd with blackjacks, arrested eleven men, two girls, started a panic among spectators...
...first presented this awesome melodrama concerning Rossum's Universal Robots, mechanical men who, when imbued with something approximating souls, hated their creators, destroyed the human race. Revived by the Theatre Guild's Acting Company, this fantasy on the theme of progress still has the power to induce panic in the imagination...