Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Williams College professors before he was ten. When his father took him west to keep the books of The Prairie Store, young Wright spent his spare time taking Chicago's first census, publishing the first lithographed map of the little town. He lost his first fortune (in the panic of 1837) when he was 22, started Prairie Farmer on a shoestring...
...panic of 1857 wiped him out again, and Wright lost his paper. He finally died in a madhouse in 1874. Meanwhile, Prairie Farmer prospered in other hands. When the Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed its office and equipment, the editors somehow got out a two-page edition, the first paper sent out of Chicago after the fire, included a map of the burnt-out district, pictures of the ruins...
...panic was on. Band leaders like Glenn Miller, Sammy Kaye, Eddy Duchin decided not to take the legal risks involved in being wired onto sustaining network broadcasts, and at week's end the networks were showing a willingness to give the band leaders protection provided arrangements were submitted to them a week before being aired. Those bands that risked it were subjected to grueling auditions by the networks' lawyers and tune detectives. B. M. I. took out $1,000,000 worth of copyright insurance...
...afternoon last week in Washington, tremulous, treble voices poured into a midget microphone and around the world. Forty-one children of foreign diplomats, attending a Christmas party in the Hall of Nations at the Washington Hotel, joined in the annual broadcast. A few of these diplo-moppets were panic-stricken, but most stepped up with little prompting and rattled off their Christmas pieces, twice-once in their native tongue, once in English...
...cover of storm and night four Nazi freighters quietly slipped their moorings, headed out into the Gulf of Mexico. As the shore line dropped astern a signal flare cut the darkness ahead, then another. To the nervous Nazis that meant British warships. The Phrygia's captain, in a panic, scuttled his ship. The other three swung frantically about, stampeded back to port...