Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alarm was false, the millers innocent of spite, Harry Truman unjustly accused. Easter could come as usual. Across young, churchbound backsides would still be emblazoned the good old legend: 100 LBS. FRESH GROUND...
...Wonderful Crime and then tell us honestly if he is still bored. I doubt that Craig Rice ever bored anybody. When we were both practically flunking a "journalism" course at San Diego State College, I can guarantee it was not because she was dull. In fact, I view with alarm your report that at the age of 18 (see cut) she was a "thin, dried-up little girl who was very plain." Not so. She was a very satisfactory armful. . . . JAMES CRENSHAW Herald and Express Los Angeles
...over the rural U.S., the alarm spread: the gaily printed cotton flour sack, time-tested foundation of the nation's farm fashions, was going out with the white flour. According to the crossroad rumors, the recent dark-flour order (see BUSINESS) had caused U.S. millers to substitute plain muslin, disdainfully stamped EMERGENCY FLOUR, for the gay old bags...
...neither Paramount nor Metro professes much alarm at this crude trespass. Paramount confidently says that Hal Wallis has the "official" story of the atom bomb locked safely in his desk. Says Metro: "SammyMarx has the atom sewed up tight...
What might have caused alarm was the speed with which the average price of farm land had risen. By November 1945, land prices were 58% higher than in 1939. (During the comparable World War I period, the rise was only 36%.) If prices follow the pattern of the last boom, the steep climb is just starting...