Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advent of spring, 1947, an ironical occasion. Some of the nation's fondest dreams had come true. Strikes had dwindled. Production was up. Shelves were loaded with things which a few months ago would have drawn milling crowds, no matter what their prices-roasts, steaks, white shirts, nylons, alarm clocks, men's suits. Canned beer was back and so were fishing tackle, shotgun shells and golf balls. But prices stayed stubbornly high or got higher. Everywhere, the biggest single continuing topic of conversation was the high cost of living-people talked endlessly of how much more they...
...Unions). This literally represents a jump up from nothing. The N.F.L.U. and its predecessors never got more than about 400,000 members in prewar Japan, never bargained effectively. Imperial Japan's "cheap labor" economy had no taste for unions; her Shinto gods were made to view them with alarm. After 1937-5 "China Incident," the militarists smashed them flat...
...Said the democracies should find no cause for alarm in the fact that foreign Communist parties are controlled by Russia...
...passing Golden's Contention that labor organizations are still in an "adolescent period" and need "Sympathetic alarm the growth of union "monopoly." "I don't ask the outlawing of strikes," he asserted. "All I say is Let's put the risk back in striking the risk that has been absent in our public policy since...
Hiding behind a smoky title that would send the most tolerant Boston censor racing to his alarm gong, the latest United Artist release quickly unmasks as a lukewarm comedy well grooved in the rut of its countless predecessors. For lack of a decent script, Hollywood has again fallen back on the opium of "poor girl wants rich boy," the only difference between this movie and its ancestors being in the quantity of "poor girl and the numbers of swooning suckers. Instead of the usual single love interest, "Bachelor's Daughters" travels on a quadruple con game that grinds...