Word: scarier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times-Herald, many another U.S. newspaper was also in print with even scarier stories, but with no more attention to a reporter's basic tenet of checking on the reliability of sources. Many papers, notably the Hopkins-hating Hearst press, bayed off in such excitement last week that they hardly bothered even to qualify their headlines. Cried the San Francisco Examiner: ATOM GIFT TO RUSS TOLD. The Columbus, Ohio Evening Dispatch blared...
...Department of Agriculture last week announced that chances of a sugar shortage this year are "remote." To the conditioned reflexes of the average citizen, that was enough to make the sugar scare scarier. Plenty of housewives had found the corner grocery store limiting their purchases to 2-5 lb. or less; Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Hershey Chocolate and other big sugar users were rationing customers to their 1940 consumption; there were whispers that the Government was printing sugar ration cards. What was the sugar score...