Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have risen as they have got into the uranium business. Other big gainers: oil and rubber (up 37%), insurance (up 40%), office equipment (up 43%). Of 35 major stock groups, only the tobaccos have declined since September, and their 16% drop can be traced directly to the lung-cancer scare...
...Fugitive Eye by Charlotte Jay (Harper; $2.50) frankly tries to scare hell out of the reader and is fairly successful. Its hero, who is blind in one eye, sees the tail end of a murder in a forest near London. After he is temporarily blinded in the other eye by an accident, the murderers capture him, and the action gets under way as a dipsomaniac doctor prepares to pour acid in the hero's good eye. The chase in the dark has the reader identified with the hero all the way. Justice, as it must in such a tale...
...troubled, filibuster-studded history of Central America, many a rusty rifle and Gatling gun has been ferried ashore through a moonlit surf from a ghostly schooner with no greater consequences than to give a dictator a mild scare or O. Henry an idea for a light-hearted story. Last week guns were again going ashore-but in a different, deadlier contest. Two thousand tons of arms and ammunition, more than all Central America has received in the last 30 years, were pouring out of the holds of a Swedish ship into Communist-infiltrated Guatemala. They were Communist weapons, almost certainly...
...Scare story of the week, aired by Gossipist Walter Winchell in his Sunday-night broadcast: "New polio vaccine . . . may be a killer . . . The U.S. Public Health Service tested ten batches . . . found that seven contained live, not dead, polio virus. It killed several monkeys...
Poor Rhonda, can anything save her now? Odd, but it so happens that the captain of the sultan's guard (Jeff Chandler) is a fellow Rhonda knew back in Salem, Mass. And so the harem-scare'em ends with Jeff at the head of a revolt ("Come on, slaves, what have we got to lose?") that leaves Omar wriggling in Technicolor on a meathook...