Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to Wall Street. During the depression of 1907, a new customer rushed in with cash withdrawn from other banks and nervously asked if his money would be safe. The cashier merely nodded towards the plaque of Hamilton on the wall. "I judge you've been through several panics," said the customer-and deposited more than $1,000,000. The trust was well placed; the bank has paid a dividend every year except in panic-stricken 1837 when dividends were banned by law. (It paid double the following year...
...Board of Trade. Said he: "The negotiations between His Majesty's Government and the representatives of the American motion picture industry have resulted in an agreement." This was good news to Hollywood, which had in part blamed the 75% British tax on U.S. film profits for inciting to panic (TIME...
...Poor Swedes." Politically the week opened in confusion bordering on panic among the parliamentary blocs. The Communists alone promptly embraced the treaty proposal. The others looked at it with despairing distaste. The Social Democrats, as usual, pretty much held the key to the situation and, as usual, did not seem to know what to do about...
...conditions for a radical improvement" might be. While Finland's leftist Premier Mauno Pekkala began packing for a trip to Moscow, others in Finland were also snapping their suitcase locks. Swarms of Baltic and Russian refugees swamped Helsinki's Swedish consulate seeking visas, and in their near-panic quest for hard currency the open market price of a dollar shot up from 700 Finn-marks to 1,000. Finland's Communist
...most miserable time began. He was forced to return to Gardiner because his father had died; the family funds were lost in the financial panic of that year. Yet none of these matters were discussed in his letters to Smith. He continued to write, instead, about Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold and Nathaniel Hawthorne. During these dreary years he was writing many of the poems that were later hailed as his masterpieces (Luke Haver gal, Richard Cory) and finding that he could place few of them in any magazine in the country. He kept his defeats to himself, letting them...