Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plague & No Prisoners. The cholera scare at Shanghai (TIME, Sept. 27) had grown to a ghastly actuality last week with 1,600 cases in the International Settlement alone. Reputedly thousands of natives were down with the plague in their Chapei section into which Japanese sent occasional shells and bombs...
...course of what medical men still described as a ''mild epidemic." In Chicago, where there were 228 cases, health and education officials still refused to open schools. In Philadelphia, an 11-year-old sufferer was brought to a city hospital from Williamsport and in the ensuing scare, Philadelphia's mayor forbade any hospital to accommodate out-of-town cases. But the biggest infantile paralysis news of the week lay in two new artificial lungs, cheaper and simpler than the $1,000 to $2,450 big steel boxes...
...such sizable volume that brokers grew envious. At first all business was on a cash basis, but to nearly everyone's surprise prices started to climb and the Wartime boom was on. Early last week Wall Street had occasion to recall those historic days, for a thundering war scare shook the New York Stock Exchange in the worst one-day break since...
...explanation of the break the war-scare seemed pat, for commodity prices were strong and the currency of an interested power, France, was weak. Yet the European stockmarkets showed no similar apprehension. Markets in Paris and London declined but never approached a break.* As for the French franc, which sank to 3.53½ cents, lowest since 1926, the logical explanation was the fact that the Chautemps-Bonnet Government has had as little success as the Blum Cabinet in bolstering France's perennial financial position-clearly indicated last week by an inflationary Bank of France statement showing: 1) the highest...
...below the U. S. price. Result- the U. S. Treasury therefore became a heavy buyer until the price differential was erased. Arbitragers promptly took advantage of the same situation, and 3,175,000 ounces of their silver last week arrived in Manhattan. On a war scare virtually all principal foreign currencies developed weaknesses against the dollar, and the tide of gold movements to the U. S., previously ebbing, rose again: in one day $11,900,000, $5,800,000 of it from Japan, was engaged for shipment...