Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white soap were eliminated from the wash rooms and newsprint and yellow soap substituted. I wouldn't under any circumstance accuse Mr. Viskniskki of this brilliant piece of economy. I am merely pointing out that possibly the mere appearance of Mr. Viskniskki at any newspaper plant creates a panic in the paper towel department. G. L. CRAIK...
...instead of five, courses, the average Freshman has only two courses for tentative exploration. With some success, the Freshman advisers last Fall persuaded Freshmen to broaden out by taking five courses; but a later check-up showed that most Yardlings had dropped the extra course in the November Hour panic...
...Cooke I was a 19th-Century magnifico, and looked it. He financed the Lincoln Government during the Civil War, went broke backing the Northern Pacific Railroad. The crash of his banking house touched off the cataclysmic Panic...
...iron ore, legendary its characters. In the early 'gos two brothers, Alfred and Leonidas Merritt, borrowed $420,000 from John D. Rockefeller to exploit Minnesota's famed Mesabi iron range, overextended themselves financing transportation facilities, building up a $29,400,000 corporation. During the '93 panic, John D. called his loan, took over the property at a $29,000,000 profit. Meanwhile, in 1892, another U. S. steel pioneer was at work on the Mesabi-Henry W. Oliver, who joined up with Andrew Carnegie's right-hand man, Henry C. Frick-over the opposition of "Pioneering...
...fall of 1931 it was barely saved when twelve Philadelphia banks, investing in panic-prevention, pledged it $50,000,000 credit, deposited $12,000,000 cash. Later the twelve banks, backed up by Reconstruction Finance Corp., forced the resignation of the president, hired instead short, short-tempered George Washington Brown Jr., RFC's former Philadelphia manager...