Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the summer doldrums, a slump in good new pictures and the British tax scare (TIME, Sept. 22), some box offices were enjoying a brisk little boom on reissues...
...Scare. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange was impressed. It raised margins on butter trading by 66%, on eggs 25%. Many a grain broker privately ordered his customers to post higher margins. But the grain-exchange officials took no heed of Mehl. Board of Trade President J. O. McClintock said firmly: "A margin fixed at an extreme limit is likely to throw . . . the market out of gear...
...flinging lecturer-son was now talking in Australia. "They were not hanged for starting the war but for losing it," he pursued. "If we tried the starters, why not put Stalin in the dock?" But he was not afraid of the Russians, said Randolph. "The people who scare me are the British and Americans, who . . . are now letting all they won slip through their butter-fingers...
Japan had given Australia a bad scare in World War II. Now, fearful that some day she might again have to fight some heavily populated neighbor, Australia was, in effect, buying population and manpower. But she did not want just anybody. Specifically, she did not want Negroes and Orientals. What she wanted most was those "splendid American soldiers." How many? Up to a million...
...praises the Catholic Church for having not only a living God but also a live devil, who, he thinks, might be just the type of agent to scare him into salvation...