Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California crash, worst in nearly a year, helped to attract attention to a bill introduced into Congress last week by publicity-loving Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, requiring transport lines to provide parachutes for each & every passenger. Representative Celler's measure, he said, grew out of a bad scare he got while flying over Philadelphia. To back up his proposal, he drew liberally from a provocative article in the February Forum called "Death by Air Transport" by Lloyd S. Graham in which compulsory use of parachutes was demanded. Author Graham, onetime publicity writer for Irving Air Chute Co., made these...
Witness of the crash was Col. Young's information chief, Frederick R. Neely. A shrewd publicity manager, he requested authority to notify newspapers of the accident to avert wild rumors, scare headlines. The Press came, saw, got answers to its questions, went away satisfied that the story was trivial. Result: news reports were brief. 98% accurate...
...Chicago last week March wheat jumped 2⅜? to 58¾? on the war scare. Best opinion was that since wheat in U. S. markets averages 5? higher than Liverpool at present, other nations, particularly Australia, would be more likely to get war orders. A Japanese blockade would almost surely eliminate China as a customer. Last week a large shipment of wheat was made to China, part of the Farm Board-Chinese Nationalist Government transaction...
Germans were tardy about scotching Wall Street's scare. The Reichsbank in President Hans Luther's own good time denied officially that the mark would go off gold. Followed an official Foreign Office denial and at the Chancellery it was said that Dr. Brüning, far from handing the Government over to Herr Hitler, planned to attend the World Disarmament Conference next February as Chancellor...
...holders of German short-term credits against the demand of France that Reparations be given priority (TIME, Dec. 7). To Berlin just ahead of Banker Wiggin hurried Politician Hitler. Flinging himself into a big armchair at the Kaiserhof Hotel on the afternoon that Wall Street had its Hitler scare, he surprisingly declared: "Germany cannot pay both her political [Reparations] and her commercial [short-term credit] debts. For my part I reject the payment of political debts which are the result of extortion and have no legal basis. On the other hand, I accept the obligation to pay commercial debts which...