Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coast Road. The world read with horror, two years ago, of Nazi planes strafing helpless civilians as they fled in panic along the roads of France. Along those French roads, the same 51st Highlanders who last week broke Rommel's line had fought a rear-guard action, cut to ribbons by the Stukas. Now the Scots and the dead of France were avenged. Over a wildly retreating Nazi army swooped Allied planes...
...tried to forestall the inevitable by cutting purchases at the source: roastings were curtailed to 75% of last year's, then 65%. Any housewife could have foretold the result: No Coffee signs in grocery windows, long queues in front of stores which had a supply. A buying panic...
...Panic buying and hoarding promptly hit a new high last week. In New Orleans one retailer said: "The customers have gone coffee-mad and now they're driving my clerks crazy too." In Manhattan, the Brazilian Consulate (representing the largest coffee-growing nation in the world) had to plead with a wholesaler for two pounds...
...point out that his statistics were based on total population, including adults who do not drink coffee and children under 15, who will get none under rationing.) But every coffee drinker knew that one cup a day represented a drastic cut. The panic buying went on, with no signs of stopping until shelves were bare. In some places anti-hoarders even began picketing the coffee queues-quite in vain...
Wave after wave, altogether some 200 planes, roared across the famed port. A communique admitted that near panic in a public shelter helped swell casualties to 354 killed, 3000 injured. To Genoa, pockmarked with ruins, rushed little King Vittorio Emanuele III, 72, and large Queen Elena, to bolster Italian morale...