Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is absolutely no reason for panic because of the shortage of sugar in the stores," Dr. Melvin Thomas Copeland, professor of Marketing at the Business School, said yesterday...
...retailers, this was a mixed blessing. It forced them to reappraise their own inventory policies, do a little panic buying themselves. In Manhattan one day last week arrived 1,088 out-of-town buyers, largest number ever to register in a single day. Many had gone just to look around; they stayed to place even bigger orders than last year-not only for spring goods but also for winter replacements. Biggest orders: men's suits, women's dresses, rubber goods (including girdles & corsets), stockings, blankets, sheets. Biggest buyers: those from defense areas...
Adolf Hitler last week gave a New Year promise that was hedged with conditions, panic and piety...
Realizing for the first time the dire possibility of air raids on their country, the U.S. people acted like hens in a barnyard at the rumble of a sudden summer storm. Some were apathetic and carefree, some panic-stricken, many more earnest and eager to be helpful. Everywhere was a great cackling. Little hen-shaped Fiorello LaGuardia, head of the Office of Civilian Defense, glared out over a U.S. that was mostly confused and unprepared...
...ever had to do") CBS's News Chief Paul White decided that until it was more than an unconfirmed rumor, the cause of the alert should be treated as such. He called up NBC's News Chief Abe Schechter, reached an internetwork understanding. Slight inducement to panic thereafter came from CBS or NBC announcers...