Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meat prices jumped on the first Drought scare last summer but housewives brought the rise to a quick halt in September by stubbornly refusing to buy. Now that the beef and hog shortage is really a market factor meat prices are again climbing. The supply of fresh butter has dwindled so rapidly that dealers are drawing from storage 1,000,000 Ib. daily to meet demand, and stocks on hand at the beginning of February were only 18,000,000 Ib. as against 76,000,000 Ib. at the same time last year. Retail prices have jumped from...
...Rhine!" Action last week was possible largely because Mr. Baldwin took such fright at Germany's increasing air power that he proclaimed last year, "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). The scare thus started has since been etched deep into the British mind. The nation and the Cabinet were ripe last week for an elaborate dossier placed by M. Laval impressively upon the big oak table at No. 10 Downing St. This dossier of the French Secret Service and General Staff purported to reveal: 1) just how grossly Adolf Hitler has violated the Treaty...
Even in this modified form, the threat of excommunication was enough to scare a good many pious members of the atheistic National Revolutionary Party. In the Chamber of Deputies next day several arose to condemn anti-Catholic extremists headed by Minister of Agriculture Tomas Garrido Canabal. The more pious of Boss Calles' underlings promptly resolved that the Government's program be carried out "without harming or trying to offend the religious beliefs of the people...
Chicago had a real influenza scare when the commandant of a veterans' hospital quarantined 1,750 patients, 1,500 employes...
...Hearst's foremost satellites. Two Washington newspaper men of recognized enterprise asserted this was just his way of pouring syrup after a challenging letter sent him by the Association of College Editors. Mr. Hearst imagined, they declared, that such generosity would make immeasurably easier the progress of the "red scare" among the separate colleges...