Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What Secretary of Commerce Weeks calls "just a readjustment" in the economy will by this time find four million persons unemployed and farm income off ten percent from December 1953. A man will jump out of a window on Wall St., causing nation-wide panic until it is learned that he was a stunt man for a documentary film about the twenties...
...Lewis. Entitled It Can't Happen Here, Lewis' work tells how it could happen here. His hero, Doremus Jesseup, is a newspaperman not unlike Wechsler, and his dictator is a politician named Berzelius Windrip. In Wechsler's age of suspicion, an embryonic Windrip is incubating; only a cessation of panic and a new faith in freedom, the editor of the Post warns us, will prevent the age of suspicion from becoming the age of suppression...
...Panic Defeated...
...piece," he explained. "The victims of nerve gas raid would probably be panic stricken, or at least in too great a hurry to put together a hypodermic needle with anything like the professional skill and speed needed...
Despite these checks, officials are confident that eventually the program will be a success, and that the major objective of nerve gas, mass panic and destruction of the will to resist, will be defeated...