Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deputies in an extremity of panic, the 65-year-old "Lion of Lorraine" was again called to form a government. It is astounding history that as his own Finance Minister, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré restored the shaken credit of the French Treasury within six months, recouped the fall of the franc, finally stabilized it on a gold basis of $1 = 25.52 francs...
...clamored for his money, brought on the very disaster that he feared. The bank failure climax came last week when Citizen's Bank & Trust Co. of Tampa closed its doors and carried down with it nine subsidiary banks. Between fruit flies, bad notes and wild rumors, a wholesale panic appeared imminent...
Willys-Overland Co. represented a 1908 reorganization of the old Overland Co., a panic-victim of 1907. Mr. Willys, who was then Overland's sales-agent in Elmira, snatched the company out of a receivership, putting up $350 to help meet a payroll. He reorganized the company with himself as president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, purchasing agent. Like Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Mr. Willys was once a cycle-maker. His bicycle plant was at Canandaigua, N. Y., not far from Hammondsport, N. Y., the birthplace of Mr. Curtiss who later built up JOHN NORTH WILLYS Chicago bought him out. Curtiss...
King Ahmed Fuad of Egypt, fat and happy, now on an official tour of Europe, last week paid a surprise visit to the League of Nations at Geneva. He caused a mild panic among the staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly...
Stone & Webster got into utility operating (as distinct from plant construction) indirectly through the panic of 1893. During this panic there was a general collapse in the stocks of public utility companies. Holders of utility stocks were approached by astute J. P. Morgan, who bought the apparently sinking ships for about one-third of their original values...