Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scare paralysis waned last week, underwriting and security markets revived hand in hand. On the New York Stock Exchange heavy buying volume shot the Dow-Jones industrial average to a new 1938 high of 149.75, which was "confirmed" by a new peak since January of 30.91 for the railroad averages. Underwriters were heartened by the successful sale of a $37,500,000 refunding by Virginia Electric & Power Co. and a $42,000,000 refunding by Michigan Consolidated...
...oratory, and for the last 16 years he has stepped to the microphone with only scribblings for script. His most exciting ad lib was the first broadcast ever made of war-from a bullet-ridden haystack between Spanish Leftist and Rightist lines, with cannon fire for sound effects. Not scared by war, he was not to be scared by a war scare. His comments throughout were calm, hopeful, accurate...
...international situation focused on the recent crisis, and the Munich pact, Professor Deutsch said, "We are back in an era of secret treaties and diplomacy, of a new division of the world with no regard for small nations." He accused Chamberlain of deliberately creating a war scare in Great Britain...
Cooperating to present to the Student Body "intelligent interpretation of the issues arising from the war scare" and their bearing on international relations, the extra-curricular associations have procured two speakers to speak from the Czechoslovakian viewpoint...
...afternoon last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sat in bland conclave with the Press. Deluged with questions about how the U. S. dollar and U. S. economy were faring in the worst war scare since 1914, he finally remarked: "I think we are proving to the world that the U. S. is the financial centre of the world and we can resist the kind of nervousness which people who have money are feeling at this time...