Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evidence of the unrest in the gaudy, noisy streets of Casablanca? It would be wrong to give an exaggerated impression of panic, but. there is some such evidence. I note more sullen faces than were to be seen during the war years. Ahmed Moulouya Hadj, a bearded, bronzed Arab who has brought his vegetables from the sub-Atlantic plains to the Casablanca markets for the last 14 years, told me: 'We farmers are no longer the only ones who count. The country is becoming industrialized, with new habits, new men and new ideas. I am not sure what will...
Profit in Panic. "Sly Pedro Gonzalez has another angle. He has heard of smart men buying healthy steers (at panic sale) for 99 pesos, inoculating them with aftosa and selling them to Government agents for 250 pesos, a goodly profit, gracias a Dios. Less enterprising men have smuggled healthy cattle from aftosa-free areas into infected areas and then stood piously by while Nature did the rest...
...panic of 1910 Durant lost control of G.M. Unfazed, he started manufacturing a car called the Chevrolet. Quietly he bought back 40% of G.M.'s stock (with the help of the Du Ponts) and walked into a G.M. board meeting with his pockets bulging with stock certificates. Imperiously he announced: "Gentlemen, I control this company." As Walter P. Chrysler later said: "It was like Napoleon's return from Elba...
...then, confusion, panic, A strange, asphyxiating odor swept through the courtyard. Frantic students, donning gas masks and air warden helmets, followed their noses to M-31, from whence the choking fumes emanated...
...cause of bad painting (not to mention bad music and bad literature) is economic: the necessity of learning one's art too fast in a fiercely competitive and not very discerning market. But he was set against helping artists out.. "In the [United] States after the panic of 1929," Berenson wrote, "the New Deal tried to make work for thousands of painters at public expense. They were kept alive, but I have not heard of the masterpieces they created...