Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of rocket-machines once fictionally landed, loosing battalions of huge extra-terrestrial monsters. For those interested in 1) owning a copy of the celebrated script (with indicated sound effects); 2) enjoying a learned laugh over the things it made people do; 3) studying U. S. behavior when a panic is on, The Invasion from Mars,* provides a lively, sympathetic anatomizing of the Wells-Welles ruckus by Psychologist Hadley Cantril and a special staff of Princeton's Radio Research Project...
...tons a year from Germany, 6,000,000 tons of which go by barge down the Rhine to Rotterdam, thence by sea to Italy. Hauling the remaining 4,000,000 tons by train over the Alps was expensive in peacetime, is practically impossible in wartime. In sudden panic, the Ministry of Corporations in Rome removed 84 trains from service, limited industries to 80% of the coal they used last year, provided coal coupons for individuals but permitted hotels with foreign tourists to burn slightly above the ration...
...Ukraine and was only 200 miles from Moscow. Trotsky did not even know that Budenny existed, but it was Budenny who stopped Denikin, at Kursk. The Bolshevists quickly recognized him, began to capitalize on his spreading fame. The rumor that Budenny was coming threw the Whites into a panic. After the revolution he was given various Government committee jobs, in most of which he was useless because he could not read or write. At 46 he entered the Moscow Military Academy, graduated with honors...
...individualistic and it was shamelessly corrupt when the first J. Pierpont Morgan came to Manhattan in 1857 from the London banking house of his father, Junius Spencer Morgan, onetime New England drygoods merchant. Through the "Western Blizzard" panic of that year and for two years more, young, brusque, tough-fibered Morgan listened & learned as a Wall Street junior clerk. By 1860 he was in business as New York agent for his father's George Peabody & Co., bought and sold foreign exchange through the Civil War. Also, he helped finance the sale to the Union Army of 5,000 carbines...
Through the red flare of the Tragic Era, while Andrew Johnson was being laid on the cross and Philadelphian Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War, was riding to ruin in the panic of 1873, J. P. Morgan walked cool and incisive, supremely confident of the future of America. At 32 he whipped Dan Drew, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould in their attempt to loot the Albany & Susquehanna R. R., saw its stock climb from $18 to $118 when he lifted the road out of receivership. It was his first real fight. Before gaudy Jim Fisk had left the Wall...