Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind this inventory boom is a store-manager panic, a store-buyer picnic. Fearing bare shelves when their stores were customer-packed, storekeepers last summer told their buyers to start buying more and buy it faster. They did. First they bought "hard" lines-radios, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, rubber goods, bicycles, typewriters, etc. Then they rushed after "soft" lines-woolen, cotton and rayon goods, stockings, dresses, men's suits, shoes, hats. To make sure they got enough, buyers quit the long-standing practice of buying only 60-90 days ahead, started buying for six to eight months. Last week many...
...duties of the hundreds of air raid wardens detailed to patrol Cambridge's streets this evening will be twofold. First, they are charged with the responsibility of preventing panic, and, second, they are to see that all lights are extinguished as promptly as possible. In connection with the latter task, it was announced that smoking or lighting matches outdoors during the blackout is expressly forbidden...
During the blackout the air raid warden's duties shall be twofold: (1) To prevent panic, (2) to see that all lights are extinguished as promptly as possible. Police shall make plans to clear all streets during blackout...
...through an intricate process of sifting before they can be "released for publication"; but whoever is supervising this sifting would do well to imitate the English experiment of omitting pep-lines and telling the public the worst. Confronted by the truth, the British people have remained steadfastly without panic, and without spurious optimism...
...companies (Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone, U.S.) were at record or near-record levels. Firestone shareholders were dazed by their chairman's glowing descriptions of ten new plants and additions. General Tire & Rubber, reporting a 61% increase in 1941 sales, told its stockholders "there is no occasion for fear and panic...