Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 8,500 men & women reported to work as usual at Brewster Aeronautical Corp.'s Long Island factories-and discovered that 4,500 had been fired that day. The sudden shock of this news stirred angry questions to which all U.S. labor wanted an answer: Was this to be the pattern of cutbacks and reconversion? Where were Washington's well-laid (or at least well-trumpeted) plans for painless transition to peacetime production...
...world got the shock it had been waiting for. But to the U.S. the shock was cushioned by the dead of night; the news came in the hours when the soberest of men are drunken with sleep. Perhaps never was such big news heard by so few. When the nation woke up, the great fact was hours...
When the counting ended, the Taoiseach (Gaelic for Prime Minister; pronounced tee shock) and his Fianna Fail had a clear margin of 14 seats in the Dail instead of a deficit of four. Even if all other parties voted solidly against him, De Valera could win on any foreseeable issue. Now he had what he had demanded: power to match his responsibility...
Rise Ahead? Both markets withstood the first shock of Dday, just as both had tumbled at the Fall of France in 1940. But otherwise, each had its own unfathomable methods of deciding whether news was good or bad. Typically, while the Japs were lopping off the Malay States and Singapore in early 1942, the New York market tumbled. The London market declined, but rallied quickly. And percentag-wise, it has climbed far higher than has New York...
...Hour before the Dawn (Paramount) is a picturization of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of that name. Its thesis: there's nothing wrong with a pacifist that committing murder won't cure. As a boy, Franchot Tone suffered a psychic shock when he shot his dog; after that he was a sourpuss at hunt breakfasts. "Now, if it was the birds that had the rifles," he would mutter...