Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Background for Drought. The Government announced that the immediate cause of last week's panic was the North African campaign. Ever since the war began, East Coast gasoline stocks have been low for lack of transportation from oil fields. (The pipeline was not yet finished.) Moreover last week was a week of 1) Christmas shopping; 2) great cold over the U.S., when it was even more important to ship fuel oil than gasoline in what transportation was at hand...
Bomb-panicked families in Turin brushed aside the call of destiny, left their war jobs and trudged, across Alpine snows to Savoy and the French Riviera. They took their money out of the banks, tossed away their Party badges, spread their panic like a disease. From Turin south to Naples and on to Sicily the mass evacuation of city dwellers strained Italian railways. They carried bundles on their shoulders, slept in stables, begged food from farmers...
...well do Roy Hendrickson and Parse Parisius know that the 1943 food problem will not be solved by exhortation and lament, but by painfully undoing the blunders which have reduced the "best-fed nation" to conditions in some places bordering on a food panic. Evidence of how badly someone had blundered...
...kept Actresses Gordon and Anderson out of The Three Sisters. To begin with, Director McClintic put off starting rehearsals for weeks because the two stars were finishing a movie, The Edge of Darkness. Errol Flynn was in the movie, and also in a mess. Had Hollywood followed its first panic impulse-to reshoot a lot of scenes -it would have meant recasting The Three Sisters. As it was, Actress Gordon arrived ten days late for rehearsals, Actress Anderson two weeks...
Legion of Merit (newest U.S. medal). Navy, 20; Allies, 2. Sample-case: Water Tender Leo M. Savage, who "immediately after the explosion [aboard the torpedoed destroyer Blakeley'] secured the boiler fires . . . shifted fuel oil ... relighted fires . . . contributed to the absence of panic...