Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tore at the debris with their hands, picks and shovels. Mothers struggled up to their waists in the mud and sludge, calling out for their children. Mrs. Pauline Evans, a 27-year-old housewife, climbed through a classroom window with a nurse and found a dozen children screaming in panic. "In another classroom, we could hear the voice of a little girl," she said. "But we could not get to her because there were other children trapped near by and if we moved anything, it would have collapsed on them. We could not rescue that little girl, who said...
...head-spin. No machine, man, or woman can tame Valentine Brose. When he applies for the boilerman job, he hopes the hours will permit him to collect his unemployment checks from a previous job. During the interview with Works Manager Price (Dana Elcar) he exudes balmy assurance, balmy panic and total inertia: "I'm satisfactory all right. Always been satisfactory. All my school reports: satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory. I went to the Grammar School, you know. I did Latin. Satis meaning enough, factory meaning works: Satisfactory. Had enough of work...
...customers was Dimestore Pioneer Frank W. Woolworth, to whom Kresge sold a sizable order of tinware. When Kresge noticed that Woolworth's 19 stores were profitably run on a cash-only basis, the traveling salesman thought he saw his future. In 1897, despite a financial panic, he used his savings for a half interest in stores in Memphis and Detroit run by another five-and-dime pioneer, John G. McCrory. Two years later, Kresge bought out the Detroit store and began his own business. It was an instant success, partly because Kresge was willing to work 20-hour days...
...Reform. The regime has even accomplished some things. Panic buying of gold, which threatened the drachma, was stemmed by the central bank early in the year. Since then, the economy has expanded nicely. Gross national product will be up 8% for 1966, industrial production is up 15% , and after nearly two years of inflation brought on by Papandreou's free-spending policies, prices have stabilized. Governing with a precarious majority of 152 Deputies (out of a 300-man Parliament), in which the balance of power is held by 40-odd Deputies weaned away from Papandreou's once-dominant...
Westec stock dropped 16 points in 13 days. Then, as word got around that Hall could not cover the debt, panic set in. So massive were the sell orders that the Securities and Exchange Commission soon stepped in, ordered all trading in Westec stock suspended for ten days, pending an investigation. Westec's board of directors met and voted to 1) fire Hall, and 2) have the company's books audited immediately...