Word: panic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countermanding sound Court decisions, indicate, that the Association--though not without stormy debate--has allowed itself to be bullied by a committee apparently stacked with rightwing, witch-hunting elements. Each of the five legislative proposals, if enacted, would have the effect of reinitiating a segment of the anti Communist panic campaign of the early...
Urgent Tasks. So long as the U.S. can rely on SAC's destructive might, the ICBM gap of the early 1960s will not mean any gap in the U.S.'s retaliatory power. The missile gap, as Secretary McElroy argued, is no cause for alarm, much less panic...
...hour before word of the Russian shot, the House space committee recommended that the U.S. probe the moon with a couple of Thor-Able rockets now lying at Cape Canaveral. Even after the news from Moscow, Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield disapproved-"a sign of panic." Underlying the absence of excuses-and the absence of panic-was a general public knowledge that the U.S. had already tried to hit the moon, had failed, had been left trailing by the Russians, but not by very much...
...Successfully countered Nikita Khrushchev's year-long campaign to bluff, panic and cajole the allies into an empty summit meeting designed only to divide allies and get Western acceptance of Communist conquests...
...bank began by marketing U.S. railroad securities abroad, took the lead in consolidating and merging railroads toward the turn of the century. From 23 Wall Street the elder J. P. Morgan stopped a run on the U.S. Treasury in 1895 by putting up gold for the Treasury, quelled the panic in 1907 by forcing leading bankers to produce enough cash to shore up shaky New York banks, put together a number of independent companies in 1901 to form the $1.4 billion United States Steel Corp. During World War I J. P. Morgan & Co. was the banker for the British government...