Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers' morale and its touchy recruitment problem. But A.E.C.'s chief medical adviser, dispatched to Fort Worth, ran into a major snag: on advice of counsel Earle's family refused to permit further examination of his body. At week's end, the Fort Worth radioactivity scare was still unresolved...
...Trap for Me." The Senator got in strong, specific denials. "Not a word" had been said at the Mayflower luncheon about calling off the investigation. Then Brewster sprang his own sensation: the strong implication that Hughes had tried to scare him off the investigation. Brewster said that Hugh Fulton, onetime chief counsel of the committee (under Harry Truman) and later one of Hughes's lawyers, came to him "as a friend of Howard Hughes and a friend of mine." Hugh Fulton, said Brewster, suggested that the investigation might turn out to be a hot potato for the Senator. That...
...some areas," said Barber Bert Oakley, "my new shop would scare the trade away." But not in fashionable Westwood, a Cadillac's spurt away from Hollywood. With searchlights, clouds of soap bubbles, and a few cinemactor customers (Allan Jones and Pat O'Brien) to give it atmosphere, the grand opening of "the world's swankiest tonsorial parlor" last week drew thousands of spectators...
...sent common stocks crashing down eleven points to 119 on the Financial Times index, their worst fall since Dunkirk. Even consols (British Government bonds), which are generally regarded by Britons to be as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar, sagged to a two-year low, then rallied slightly. The scare caused a shiver in Wall Street, where the ten-week long upswing in stock prices suddenly halted. The Dow-Jones industrial index dropped 3.85 points from the July high of 187.66. This week the market slipped off again, with steel and automobile shares leading the drop...
...Council of Economic Advisers, which sent its midyear report to Congress this week, thought so too. The change from fear of recession to fear of inflation "has been unduly stimulated by such events as the corn crop scare," it said, "and an exaggerated interpretation of the effects of the coal mine wage adjustment. Some persons have scoffed at the idea that businessmen could or would follow a stabilizing course. Yet the reaction among progressive business leaders [in the last six months] was such as to make new possibilities of orderly price corrections in a free economy through the voluntary action...