Word: scared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gerard ("Jerry") Lambert, 52, is the venturesome businessman who, in 1921, invented the great "halitosis" scare and made fortunes for himself and three brothers by selling the world "Listerine"-a mouthwash invented by their father, produced and sold conservatively at St. Louis since 1880. He liquidated most of his Lambert Co. holdings in 1928 for about $25,000,000 and took up racing J-boats- the big, expensive class that competes for the America...
Suppose the U. S. had had a war scare six weeks ago which necessitated the evacuation of cities, the setting up of anti-aircraft defenses near public buildings, the distribution of millions of gas masks to the urban population. Suppose that six weeks later, with the crisis passed, Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring confessed to Congress that the air-raid precautions had been so badly muddled that had war come, countless U. S. citizens would have needlessly been killed. Unquestionably the gravest sort of scandal would have followed...
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare made the Cabinet's only drastic move, announced that next time there is a war scare the State will force upon the owners of the stately homes of England "compulsory billeting" of refugees from the cities...
...week's end FCC was flooded with indignant protests against Mr. Welles and CBS. In Germany the newspapers treated the unconscious hoax as a war scare. In the U. S. the press, no friend to radio, treated it as a public outrage. In London, Author Wells was a little shirty, too. He said: "It was implicit in the agreement that it was to be used as fiction and not news. I gave no permission whatever for alterations that might lead to belief that it was real news...
...antiaircraft and coastal defenses, the balloon barrages (rows of sausage-shaped gas bags, suspending thin, steel cables, which will be anchored to truck-winches and floated above the industrial centres in wartime) and emergency hospital work. In a decision, long expected and accelerated by the recent war scare, the War Secretary announced that the Terriers from now on will be patterned after the Regular Army. They will retain their antiaircraft and other duties, but four divisions will be mechanized, equipped with more warlike teeth: light and heavy machine guns, anti-tank guns and tanks...