Word: scaree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Retailers begin to do their part of the job so that consumers can also cooperate in the hoarding drive." Though "somewhat handicapped by the self-imposed restriction against scare advertising," they still find subtle ways ("like promoting ageless fashions") to persuade their customers to buy now what they won't need for months. And: "It's simply grand the way the public is cooperating. It appears that almost anything made of wool just walks out of the store. Some stores are now doing more business in woolen lines in a week than they did in a month...
...week; now they total only 50,000,000 bbl.-about a month's supply in normal times. The oil shortage now, as it was last fall, is really a transportation, shortage, but this time it is acute. At the peak of last fall's oil scare, about 20% of the 300-odd tankers that usually ply the Atlantic Seaboard were on loan to Britain. Now tanker service has been chopped 45%, partly because of submarine sinkings, partly because of restrictions on tanker movements to prevent sinkings but mostly because so many ships have been transferred to war routes...
...dreaded night to come on." a survivor said. "It was colder at night. Several men tried to jump overboard, but we kept them inside. When they died we had to throw the bodies overboard. Sharks came close, waiting. We shouted, we made noises, we did whatever we could to scare them off. The men's lips were swollen and cracked, and once when it rained we tried to catch a few drops of rain on the tongue." Total hours...
...bomb. Most shocking revelation of Japan's fear of Koreans came in the Tokyo earthquake. Then, because the rumor grew that Koreans were taking advantage of the disaster to blow up bridges, cut wires, Japanese went into a wave of hysteria that made the Orson Welles broadcast scare look like a session of the Supreme Court. When it was over, at least 500 (perhaps as many as 5,000) Koreans living in Tokyo had been slaughtered...
...Department of Agriculture last week announced that chances of a sugar shortage this year are "remote." To the conditioned reflexes of the average citizen, that was enough to make the sugar scare scarier. Plenty of housewives had found the corner grocery store limiting their purchases to 2-5 lb. or less; Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Hershey Chocolate and other big sugar users were rationing customers to their 1940 consumption; there were whispers that the Government was printing sugar ration cards. What was the sugar score...