Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government ordered the railroads to cut services. Cities around the U.S. worried about heat & light. The steel industry had reason to fear a complete shutdown. With 370,000 miners out on strike, the nation was down to a meager two-week supply of soft coal. Much as he disliked it, Harry Truman finally had to invoke the Taft-Hartley...
Search at Harwell. For many months security officers of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission have had reason to fear a leak from Harwell. The British were not much impressed by American fears. Last September, however, British counterespionage, working against the Russian espionage, became convinced from what they picked up that atomic information was passing from Harwell to Russian agents...
...spare time Waugh made souvenir boxes of sea shells, a whalebone chandelier, a papier-maché castle for his children-and abstract paintings. He never exhibited the abstractions, for fear of shocking his devoted customers...
Although more implicit than explicit, the AMA still nurtures a fear of too much federal control. Especially in the case of the scholarship grants the organization feels that political appointees will replace qualified medical students...
...final analysis, there must be some resolution between the medical groups' fear that the profession will be over populated and the government's fear that not enough of the right caliber student can afford modern medical education. Both are justifiable fears; the medical profession was dangerously overcrowded in 1906 before the accrediting of medical schools, while the administration knows that fewer and fewer students will be able to pay 600-800 dollars yearly to become doctors. H.R. 5940 is the first legislative attempt to resolve this problem