Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief factual basis for the Red scare is the Hoan proposal for public ownership of the city electric company. A referendum on that issue will accompany next week's elections. Businessmen make much of the facts that Milwaukee had 107 strikes in 1934, that the Mayor's secretary and one of his chief organizers have marched in picket lines and made fighting speeches to strikers, that the Mayor himself was reported to have said to a group of strikers: "We must demand our rights. God bless you, I hope you win." They were aghast when Socialist City Attorney...
...June, Miss Stretz had shown Gebhardt a small revolver, which she said was to scare off burglars...
...fall, a blow, a scare, a rage, a chill, writes Dr. Taussig, may cause spontaneous abortion. Spontaneous abortions may also result from defective ova, weakness of the placenta, nervous wombs, malformed pelvis, dietary deficiencies, endocrine disturbances. Half the women who suffer from typhoid fever, cholera, scarlet fever, smallpox, erysipelas, sleeping sickness and malaria during pregnancy involuntarily abort. Pneumonia is especially feticidal...
...fluctuating light & shadow of television. The possibility therefore arose of "piping" television from city to city underground. A. T. & T. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental coaxial pipe between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Western Union, Postal Telegraph and certain cinemagnates objected, raised a monopoly scare. The Commission ruled that A. T. & T. might install the cable only under heavy restrictions. At these the company balked (TIME...
...double hypothesis considered widely in London to fit the facts last week was: 1) To create a British scare which would enable the Conservative Party to win the general election, Party Boss Baldwin simply filled the Mediterranean with warboats; 2) The Mediterranean is being kept full of warboats to perpetuate the scare at least until the Chancellor of the Exchequer gets through the House of Commons the great program of $1,500,000,000 for increasing British armaments which last week had London's stock market in the flood tide of a Munitions Boom...