Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout last year the sugar market was in continual turmoil, harassed by quotas, taxes, tariffs, squeezes, innumerable AAA regulations and periodic stampedes to get sugar under this or that barrier. At the start of this year the future was beclouded by 240,000 tons of sugar carried over from last year's quota. The U.S. had used less sugar than AAA expected because canning and preserving was curtailed by the Drought. But in the first four months of this year, the big Manhattan sugar house of Lamborn & Co. estimates, consumption ran some 13.5% ahead of the same period...
...suddenly goes to pieces, even his physician will call his condition a nervous breakdown. Technically the businessman is suffering from a neurosis. He is not mad. Nor is he apt to go insane. His inability to cope with people and circumstances has thrown him into a complex mental-emotional turmoil and shaken his entire personality. With a patient, learned psychiatrist as his guide he may clamber out of the debacle and regain a stout hold on life. But the paths he takes must be peculiarly his own. for psychiatrists have not mapped all the bad lands of the neuroses. Some...
Instantly there was turmoil. Mr. Fox's threat of a dictatorship was scoffed at but the scoffing was tremulous and there were conferences behind locked doors, attempts to reassure alarmed exhibitors. Rumors flew that Mr. Fox had been offered millions to sell out. He answered by suing virtually the whole industry, eleven companies in all. By this time the defendants' battery of counsel included onetime Attorney General William D. Mitchell...
Bulgaria and Turkey are laying serious and singularly similar charges at each other's doors. Each accuses the other of massing troops on the Macedonian border and contemplating acquisition because of the internal turmoil in Greece. With loyal and rebel forces quite evenly matched, although the former is dominant on land and the latter is superior at sea, the probability that they both have designs on war-ridden Greece amounts almost to a certainty...
Into the seething turmoil of governmental controversy, the Law Review has thrown three pertinent articles which will appear in the March, issue coming out next week...