Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Petroleum. In 1924 President Coolidge appointed an oil conservation board, saying: "The supremacy of nations may be determined by the possession of available petroleum and its products. . . . Over- production in itself encourages cheapness, which in turn leads to wastefulness and disregard of essential values." Fear of anti-trust prosecution has retarded oil curtailment in the U. S. In certain states there seems no legal way to coerce small producers. The Federal Oil Conservation Board has suggested a six-day refinery week; the American Petroleum Institute since its organization in 1920 has championed curtailment; California's law prohibiting the waste...
Eugene O'Neill?"Who has done nothing much in the American drama save to transform it utterly in ten or twelve years from a false world of neat and competent trickery to a world of splendor, fear and greatness...
...bank's depositors, many of whom were in line by 9 a. m., the news brought some hysteria. To the Stock Exchange, unsettled all week by fear of this development, the news brought uncertainty, alternate selling and buying. To the market in bank shares it brought much selling. If the Bronx merchant who had tried to sell his Bank of United States stock the day before had succeeded, he would have received 11½a share. After the closing, he would have been lucky to get more than $3. Last year this stock sold...
Significance. Many a banker argued late and loudly over the question of whether the big organizations ought to have prevented the failure of Bank of United States, cost what it might. One side said it would have been worth $50,000,000 to prevent fear from spreading through the ranks of the financially ignorant. The other side said that in helping the weak the strong impair their own strength, and hence the fundamental strength of the country. Agreed: It depends upon the particular case...
...Louise collapsed in the second act. The director remembered the girl who had been watching rehearsals, sent for her, asked if she could finish the performance. Mary Garden had never sung on a stage, never sung with orchestra. But she did not hesitate, said: "M. le Directeur, have no fear. I shall not fail." She recalls now trying postehaste to loop in the costume of the larger soprano, thinking: "My God, in all this huge place, isn't there anybody who has a pin?" Her performance created a sensation. Her voice was curiously husky, uneven, but she played...