Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public services in Danzig, Adolf Hitler can never lay the complaint that they suppressed Germanity in the Free City. But despite the surface calm, Poles could list last week numerous serious complaints against Germans. It was these which caused so much apprehension in Poland and a first-class European scare...
Commodities: The commodity price index fell again to 75.6, a new 1939 low. Leading the commodity retreat was wheat, reacting over 3? a bushel from the fading of spring's normal crop scare news. The wheat crop will be short, but 1938's prodigious carryover (153,537,000 bushels, which will reach an estimated 275,000,000 bushels in a month) is hanging over the wheat pit, giving farmers a double loss through a low price on a small crop...
...Under Britain's new conscription law the Government can call up reserves without publicly announcing it, a facility the dictators have long used to scare their adversaries. Last week there began a quiet, gradual mobilization of reservists in Britain which is expected to keep under arms throughout the summer and autumn, Europe's danger period, some...
Slickest bullying trick of Nazi spider-fly diplomacy is to invite victims to Berlin, turn their heads with official flattery, parades and feasts, then scare them out of their wits with a stunning display of German military might given, of course, in their honor...
...order to scare the patient out of a fit Dr. Schwab has rigged up a purloined tug-boat whistis near the patient. When this whistle blows, the patient is quits effectively scared back into consciousness...