Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wild scare buying after the Korean war, commodity prices went only one way-up. Retail prices faithfully followed them. By last week, the big scare was over in many a commodity. A prime example was wool, which hit a 30-year peak this year (see chart). This week, when wool auctions opened in Sydney, Australia, wool prices were down as much as 15% from June, and more than 50% under February and March highs...
...drops of such spectacular leaders as wool, rubber and cotton, thanks to increased supplies and an end to scare buying, pushed the Dow-Jones spot commodity index almost back to where it was at the start of the Korean...
...Senate subcommittee on Internal Security has gone about its hearings on Far Eastern policy with an air of quiet authority. The quiet was imposed by Nevada's canny old Pat McCarran, committee chairman, who sensed that the public might be fed up with theatrics and McCarthy-style scare tactics; McCarran set his sessions in a small, fourth-floor capital committee room, banned play-by-play television and newsreel coverage. The air of authority stems from the fact that committee investigators swooped down on a Massachusetts barn last February and seized some 300,000 letters and memoranda belonging...
...lose, Savitt is one of the men Frank Shields is counting on to bring the Davis Cup back from Australia. Sweden, with tough Lennart Bergelin (who gave the Australians a scare by winning both his singles matches last year), must be coped with this December before the U.S. can meet the Australians. Savitt has beaten Bergelin, and he has proved that he has the Australians' number.After the matches with Canada, Shields said: "All I know for certain right now is that Dick Savitt will play singles, and Tony Trabert will be my left court man in doubles." Shields...
...dropped one meter every six seconds, all the while reporting regularly to Cosyns over a special telephone connected through the center of the cable. At 130 meters, the expedition got a bad scare when a short circuit cut off communication for a few moments. But by the time the windlass dial registered 300 meters, excitement on the surface was running high. If Lépineux continued for just a little longer, he would break the long-standing vertical drop record of 318 meters.* "Stop," he finally called. "I am on the bottom." The windlass dial registered 356 meters...