Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could have put a great big EXCLUSIVE on almost every Russian war story in this week's issue of TIME, and this is one week when it really gets my goat that TIME presents its hot news in such a matter-of-fact way, without scare heads, boxes, big type...
Steel mills were the first major industry to obey President Roosevelt's "unlimited emergency" decree; most of them worked right through Memorial Day, thus held production close to capacity. Best news, however, came from utility offices. Despite a scarcity scare in the Southeast, power output last week was 3,011,754,000 kilowatt-hours, 16.3% above a year ago. Like business as a whole, the gains were not uniform. Output of New York's Consolidated Edison was only 0.4% above 1940, while North American Co. (St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington...
Citizens of the Philippines had a scare when they heard that Japanese merchants of Southern Luzon had had orders to close out their businesses by April 30, and to this end had discounted prices on their goods as much...
...spent much of last summer trying to persuade the Government and business men of the necessity for piling up back-logs of industrial stocks. The original estimates of industrial reserves have since turned out to be as abourdly small as he asserted. At present, only molybdenum of the many scare metals has been piled up in sufficient quantities. Even nickel is restricted...
...frank. We merely received a bad scare and are going to protect ourselves. When we help Britain and when (not if) we go to war, we will be engaged in the age-old pastime of looking out for our own welfare. And why shouldn...